Wordless Books: Picture Perfect

Autor/in	Lukehart, Wendy
Titel	Wordless Books: Picture Perfect
Quelle	In: School Library Journal, 57 (2011) 4, S.50-54 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-8930
Schlagwörter	Childrens Literature; Tales; Reading Ability; Literacy; Picture Books; Teaching Methods; Creative Teaching; Aesthetics; Reading Skills; Decoding (Reading); Creativity; Language Skills; Reading Instruction; Annotated Bibliographies; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Erzählung; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Ästhetik; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Dekodierung; Kreativität; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Leseunterricht; Bibliography; Bibliographies; Bibliografie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	Wordless books offer a bounty of riches. The format is accessible to everyone regardless of language or reading ability, making the books ideal for use in international settings, classes with nonnative speakers, or families with adults or children who are struggling or emergent readers. They enrich the aesthetic lives and literacy skills of "mainstream" or "gifted" children as well, since they require visual decoding, original thinking, language production, an understanding of multiple viewpoints, and the interpretation of meaning. Since there is no single or correct story, the reader's task is to slow down and look carefully, applying everything they know about narrative to the process of "reading" the pictures. The narratives included here unfold entirely or predominantly in images. Spanning 80 years, they come from the picture-book and graphic-novel traditions. This article provides a list of wordless concept books which explore story lines that seem particularly well suited to image-laden telling: (1) chases; (2) dreams; (3) familiar tales; (4) journeys; (5) viewing; and (6) wondrous relationships. These friendship tales often result in encounters between a child and/or those for whom it feels natural to need to invent language: (1) animals; (2) snowmen; (3) aliens; and (4) robots. (Contains 3 online resources.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10