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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Literacy, 2020
One of the main purposes of the classroom-based research featured in this article was to develop 9-year-old students' visual meaning-making skills and competences by focusing specifically on elements of visual art and design in picturebooks. The complexity of the picturebook format requires and rewards slow looking by readers/viewers. However,…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Elementary School Students, Visual Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
During a classroom-based study, Grade 4 students were provided with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal texts. Intentionally designed instruction during the research included a range of activities focused on specific…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Science Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Literacy
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Social Studies, 2021
Participation in a classroom-based study provided Grade 4 students with multiple opportunities to develop their visual meaning-making skills and competences, as well as their aesthetic understanding of and critical thinking about multimodal ensembles. Intentionally-designed instruction during the multifaceted research included a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Critical Thinking, Aesthetics
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Pantaleo, Sylvia; Walker, Georgette – Journal of Children's Literature, 2017
In this article, the authors focus on children's and adults' analyses and interpretations of the artwork and design of Peter Brown's "Mr. Tiger Goes Wild." Sipe (2008b) noted how the body of research on "children's visual meaning making from picturebooks" would benefit from "more studies combining careful and theoretically…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Visual Stimuli, Childrens Literature, Color
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Pantaleo, Sylvia – Reading Teacher, 2014
Throughout its history, the ecology of the picturebook has been impacted by various social and cultural changes. Postmodernism is one perspective, among other conceptual and theoretical frameworks, that has been proposed to explain some of the fundamental changes evident in many contemporary picturebooks. A review of the literature (Pantaleo &…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Fiction
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Pantaleo, Sylvia; Bomphray, Alexandra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
During two multifaceted, classroom-based research projects, Grade 7 students had opportunities to develop their understanding of metafictive devices and art and design elements by reading a selection of picturebooks and graphic novels. The students also had the opportunity to apply their knowledge and create their own multimodal print texts. This…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Picture Books, Cartoons, Novels