The authors share how, through reading, writing, and art experiences around picturebooks, children learned to read and communicate multimodally through art and written language and also grew as critical thinkers.The pictures explained the story a little more. Like in the biking picture it didn't mention in the book that they were going so fast but in the illustration it did. And I looked at the words too. Sometimes I didn't know what something was in the illustrations, and it explained it in the words. (Allie) Prisca Martens is a professor at
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The purpose of this article is to share how the authors supported kindergartners’ and first graders’ developing creativity through stories they composed in writing and art. Over eight years, the authors explored ways to use picturebooks as mentor texts to help students explore how the authors and artists create meaning multimodally. This article shares minilessons and examples of how students creatively and imaginatively told their stories; learned to think, see, and reason; and invented and problem solved their stories, seamlessly weaving their meanings into writing and art.
The goal of this case study was to examine a second grader's reading of picture books using eye movement miscue analysis as a method to further understand reading as a meaning-making process. Two picture books with different relationships (e.g., enhanced and counterpoint) were selected because they elicit varied ways of presenting meaning and thus provide a unique opportunity to study reading. Findings from this case study highlight that reading is more than the eyes moving sequentially from word to word while the reader actively constructs meaning. Reading picture books demands an expanded repertoire of strategies since only looking at multimodal signs, such as written and pictorial cues, that are available when reading is not sufficient to ensure full comprehension of picture books. Implications for teaching reading and understanding multimodality in learning are addressed.
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