Storytime: Young Children's Literary Understanding in the Classroom
The author draws on his own extensive research in urban classrooms to present a comprehensive, grounded theoretical model of children s understanding of picture storybooks the first to focus specifically on young children. Advancing a much broader and deeper theory of literary understanding, the...
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The author draws on his own extensive research in urban classrooms to present a comprehensive, grounded theoretical model of children s understanding of picture storybooks the first to focus specifically on young children. Advancing a much broader and deeper theory of literary understanding, the author suggests that children respond in five different ways during picture storybook readalouds; that these responses reveal that children are engaged in different types of literary meaning-making; and that these types of meaning-making are examples of five foundational aspects of literary understanding.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807748282 (0807748285)
Publish date: November 1st 2007
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
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