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New Perspectives on Picture Books [PDF]

open access: yesAthens 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   +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

open access: yesimg 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]

open access: yesJiàoyù 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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The importance of context-relative knowledge for illustrating wordless picture books

open access: yesImage & Text, 2022
This study investigated the role of signs in wordless picture books and their influence on meaning making. The article's main aim is to highlight the importance of using culturally appropriate signs to foster narrative comprehension in wordless picture books.
Maria Magdalena Ellmann   +4 more
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Improving Class Interaction Using Hand-Made Wordless Picture Series for Preschoolers during Storytelling

open access: yesJournal of EST (Educational Science And Technology), 2018
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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Co-Constructing Stories: Sharing Wordless Picture Books with Preschoolers

open access: yesChildren 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   +3 more
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Reading from the Wordless: A Case Study on the Use of Wordless Picture Books

open access: yesEnglish 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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Breaking Down Barriers with Wordless Picturebooks: “The Silent Books Exhibition, from the World to Lampedusa and Back”

open access: yesStudies in Arts and Humanities, 2019
In 2012 the Italian branch of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) established a library on Lampedusa Island, Italy for the use of local children but also for the many refugee children arriving there from Africa and the Middle East ...
Alexander Kouker
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Scaffolding A Student's Development of Storytelling With Wordless Picture Books

open access: yesNetworks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2005
According to Kathryne Macgrath Speaker (2002), "Children involved in storytelling programs exhibit improved listening skills, better sequencing abilities, increased language appreciation and more thoughtful organization in their own writing." (p.184) As Speaker indicates, storytelling can be a very important tool for learning in the classroom ...
Beed, Penny L., Shipp, Ashley
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Temporal transitions in narrative production with wordless picture books

open access: yesLSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts, 2012
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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