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Peer reviewedBromley, H. – Reading, 2001
Suggests that pictures offer equality of access to texts for all children, and provide an effective medium for promoting discussion and reflection. Finds that children are able to develop skills of metacognition through talking about a pictorial text--children as young as six are able to demonstrate their understandings of the reading process. (RS)
Descriptors: Discussion, Elementary Education, Metacognition, Reading Processes
Castle, Marrietta Walden – 1986
Based on the notion that visual decisions play an important role in what children recognize and interpret in books and that teachers have a special responsibility to help students become visually literate, this article draws parallels between visual and verbal concepts and suggests some activities for teaching "picture reading" skills in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Multisensory Learning, Pictorial Stimuli, Reader Text Relationship
