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O'Neil, Kathleen Ellen – Reading Teacher, 2011
Picturebooks tell stories in both words and pictures. Interacting with the printed word, the technical elements of illustration--color, line, shape and composition--work to establish and enhance the story. Sometimes simply by adding description of characters and setting, and, at times, by challenging the veracity of the text with ironic or…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Illustrations, Visual Literacy, Literacy
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Flood, James; Lapp, Diane – Reading Teacher, 1998
Describes two hours in the life of an eight-year-old to demonstrate that children acquire information and develop language skills from multiple sources. Argues that the conceptualization of literacy must be broadened from reading and writing skills to a definition that recognizes the layering of information and that includes all forms of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Definitions, Elementary Education