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Ecoliteracy Through Imagery: A Close Reading of Two Wordless Picture Books [PDF]

Children's Literature in Education, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to propose some ways of reading two wordless picture storybooks which have recently been published, by Suzy Lee and Bernardo Carvalho respectively. The objective is to analyse the ways in which the visual discourse can create an effective narrative using a variety of pictorial strategies.
Ramos, Ana Margarida, Ramos, Rui Lima
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Wordless Picture Books beyond School Boundaries: Visual Bridges toward Family-School Partnerships in Education

Proceedings, 2017
This article discusses how the shared reading of wordless picture books can contribute to the promotion of parental educational engagement by fostering shared visual reading practices. Prior research shows that wordless picture books contribute to making
Cinzia Zadra
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Narrative dialogic reading with wordless picture books: A cluster-randomized intervention study

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020
Shared reading has the potential to promote a wide range of language skills that are important for reading acquisition. Dialogic reading interventions in preschool facilitate the acquisition of vocabulary and narrative production skills, but it is unclear (a) whether dialogic reading can also foster inferential and literal narrative comprehension and ...
Lorenz Grolig, Caroline Cohrdes, Simon P. Tiffin-Richards, Sascha Schroeder   +3 more
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Wordless but not silent: Unlocking the power of wordless picture books

TESOL Journal, 2023
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]

Athens Journal of Education, 2017
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, James Nageldinger, William P. Bintz, Sara D. Moore   +3 more
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War and Peace between Words and Pictures. The Picturebooks As Neutral Ground for the Dialectics between Graphic and Verbal Languages

img journal, 2023
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]

Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué, 2013
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

Children and Libraries, 2021
“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, Alli L. Angell, Nicole A. Battaglia, Caroline M. Kaicher   +3 more
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Creative and Stylistic Devices Employed by Children During a Storybook Narrative Task: A Cross-Cultural Study [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of culture on the creative and stylistic features children employ when producing narratives based on wordless picture books.
Allen M. S., Bauman R., Bauman R., Berman R. A., Bliss L. S., Bliss L. S., Bloome D., Brenda K. Gorman, Burns M. S., Carrow-Woolfolk E., Celinska D. K., Champion T. B., Champion T. B., Champion T. B., Christine E. Fiestas, Cortazzi M., Cristofaro T. N., Elizabeth D. Peña, Fang Z., Finestack L. H., Gillam R. B., Gillam R. B., Gillam R. B., Green S. B., Greenfield P. M., Gutiérrez-Clellen V. F., Haden C. A., Hansen C., Hayward D., Heath S. B., Hedberg N. L., Hester E. J., Hofstede G., Hofstede G., Hudson J., Hyon S., Justice L. M., Justice L. M., Kaderavek J. N., Katz L., Labov W., Mainess K., Maya Reynolds Clark, McCabe A., McCabe A., McCabe A., Melzi G., Michaels S., Miller L., Miller L., Miller L., Minami M., Newcomer P., Nichols P., Numeroff L., Numeroff L., Owens R. E., Patterson S., Perez C., Peterson C., Peterson D., Rogoff B., Silva M. J., Snow C. E., Uccelli P., Ulatowska H. K., Wang Q., Westby C. E.   +67 more
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Reading from the Wordless: A Case Study on the Use of Wordless Picture Books

English Language Teaching, 2008
For centuries people have conveyed meaning through the use of visual images, without the aid of written text. Consequently, wordless picture books have become a distinct genre within the world of literature.  The wordless book is unique in that its content must be communicated solely through the use of illustrations.
Marina Mohd Arif, Fatimah Hashim
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