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Books Without Words: using wordless picture books to stimulate young highly able readers
Dr Margaret Sutherland FRSA [email protected]
• The understanding of the meaning of visual images around us
• 21 century children – possess rich understanding of visual imagery
• Moving images and still images • Becoming visually literate • Storytakers and storymakers construct meaning
(Crawford and Hyde, 2000) • Reading is a meaning making experience
Why visual images?
• Develop vocabulary and language skills
• Develop creativity and story telling skills
• Encourage book usage skills
Wordless Picture Books
• Model how the picture tells a story
• Coach and collaborator • Observe • Listen • Interact • Prompt
Role of the teacher
• Use of dialogue • Setting development • Character descriptions • Sequencing of events • Story development
Skills Development
• Detecting sequence • Identifying details • Noting cause and effect
relationships • Making judgements • Determining main ideas • Making inferences
Skills Development
Questions of Childhood List adapted from Roedel, W.C., Jackson, N.W. and Robinson, H.B. (1980)
“First they make you button your own shirt, then they make you tie your own shoes….you gotta ask yourself….where’s this all heading?”