Enhancing English Learners' Language Development Using Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
This article presents an approach to use wordless picture books to enhance the language development of English language learners. This approach is grounded in best practices to teach ELLs. The process starts with viewing and analyzing the visual images, engaging ELLs in discussion, and ending with students' self-authored texts.
Belinda Louie
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Improving Class Interaction Using Hand-Made Wordless Picture Series for Preschoolers during Storytelling [PDF]
Early childhood is a critical period for language development. Children need more language interactions with caregivers, for optimal its development. Narrative skill become the most power full point to language development.
Yustina Laurentius Sri Mulatsih +3 more
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Temporal transitions in narrative production with wordless picture books [PDF]
We present empirical results that demonstrate temporal intervals in story time affect narrative structure. Eight native English-speaking adults estimated the duration of intervals between events depicted in consecutive pictures in Mercer and Marianna Mayer’s wordless picture books, and a separate group of 37 adults wrote stories to accompany these ...
Lee, Choonkyu +2 more
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The Progress of Students Reading Comprehension through Wordless Picture Books [PDF]
Wordless picture book is an unique book that could help the young learner to get their literacy. The content of the wordless picture book must be communicated through the visual of the illustration. This research discusses a case study of how a kid of six years old produce his narrative through wordless picture book.
Lubis, Romaida, Romaida Lubis
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Using a wordless picture book to explore children’s narrative production in rural Kenya
Background: Early language development is critical for literacy acquisition and academic success. However, children in rural Africa often face challenges such as limited access to literacy resources and minimal shared reading experiences at home, which ...
Rehema Abiyo +6 more
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Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books
AbstractTeaching literacy skills that require critical reading and linguistic output can feel like an insurmountable challenge when presented with students of varying language proficiencies. One valuable but often unused tool to surmount these challenges is wordless picture books (WPBs).
Jennifer D. Honaker, Ryan T. Miller
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New Perspectives on Picture Books [PDF]
The use of picture books has been illuminated as a potential to address important topics such as STEM, fluency, and social justice. Unique genres such as hybrid texts and wordless picture books are also worth considering for instruction.
Lisa Ciecierski +3 more
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This article discusses the relationships that have been established throughout history between drawn pictures and written words. An almost epic interweaving of war and peace emerges between the two languages that, depending on the times, cultures and ...
Enrico Cicalò
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A pilot study on the aesthetic communication process of readers interpreting wordless picturebooks based on the Anno’s Journey series [PDF]
This study investigated the genealogy of iconographic interpretation. By adopting an aesthetic communication model for reader responses as the basis for consideration, we regarded reader-book interactions as the artistic and receptive poles of the ...
Yu-Chai Lai
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Co-Constructing Stories: Sharing Wordless Picture Books with Preschoolers
“A wordless book doesn’t have the author’s voice—the text—telling the story. Each reader tells it in their own way.”In this quotation, three-time Caldecott Medal recipient David Wiesner vividly describes the opportunity that wordless picture books provide for the reader to create their own story. The term “wordless picture books” is often used to refer
Andrea A. Zevenbergen +3 more
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