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Investigating how picturebooks support reading comprehension Reciprocal Reading Conference Mary Anne Wolpert In picture books, words and pictures are a fantastic double act, each doing a different job, maybe even telling a different story

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Investigating how picturebooks support reading comprehension

Reciprocal Reading Conference

Mary Anne Wolpert

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‘In picture books, words and pictures are a fantastic

double act, each doing a different job, maybe even telling a different story — but you need both of them to have the whole story. And even the youngest people are expert readers of pictures. So in pictures you can say very complex things, things that it would take an enormous number of words to explain.’ (Mini Grey, 2006)

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The grammar of visual design

Kress and Van Leeuwen

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Reading Picture Books

  • 1. Relationship between word and image

(symmetrical, enhancement, counterpoint, contradiction)

  • 2. Positioning

(of text on page, characters in relation to each other, ‘camera’ angles and perspective, white space)

  • 3. Aesthetics

(colour and light, line, framing)

  • 4. Intertextual links
  • 5. Text cohesion

(pacing, intratextual links, vectors,)

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  • 2. Positioning

(of text on page, characters in relation to each

  • ther, ‘camera’ angles and perspective, white

space)

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  • 3. Aesthetics

(colour and light, line, framing)

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  • 4. Intertextual links
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  • 5. Text cohesion

(pacing, intratextual links, vectors,)

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Postmodern Picture Books

Words and pictures interact

Deliberate boundary breaking

Traditional devices/endings resisted – interrupted reading experience, gaps to challenge the reader

Use of metafictive

Intertextual and intratextual links

Irony, parody, playfulness and humour

Shift in narrators’ positions

Multilayered, multiple meanings

Multimodality

Use of font

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Research into children’s responses

 Children Reading Pictures  ‘Dipping into the cauldron: A case study of 6 children

reading and interpreting a complex picture book.’

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Research questions

 How would bilingual children use the relationship

between word and pictures to participate in meaning- making?

 What links to other texts would they make and how

would they fill the gap between text and reader with their own experiences and interests?

 How would talking at length about a book with peers

affect their understanding and engagement?

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Analysis

 Reading word and image: filling in the gap  Intertextual links: creating shared worlds  Having a voice: the value of talk

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The potential of picturebooks

 Emotional engagement  Intellectual challenge  The capacity to stimulate and provide ways of

demonstrating thinking

 The potential to access deeper layers of meaning

through the interpretation of word and image and the space between

 The inspiration to talk and push language

(Coulthard, 2003)