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Patricia A. Crawford; Sherron Killingsworth Roberts; Jan Lacina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Picturebooks play a vital role in the lives and learning of young children. These complex, multimodal texts offer unique opportunities for meaning-making as readers engage with the interplay between text and illustrations. Picturebooks offer children stepping stones into the literary arts, providing information and storylines that illuminate…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Young Children, Literary Devices, Empowerment
Meghan M. Salomon-Amend; Lance J. Rips – Grantee Submission, 2023
Readers assume that commonplace properties of the real world also hold in realistic fiction. They believe, for example, that the usual physical laws continue to apply. But controversy exists in theories of fiction about whether real "individuals" exist in the story's world. Does Queen Victoria exist in the world of "Jane Eyre,"…
Descriptors: Fiction, Imagination, Literature, Realism
MaryGabrielle Prezioso – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reading engagement is an essential component of children's reading achievement. This three-chapter dissertation considers a new approach to conceptualizing reading engagement through the lens of children's immersion, or absorption, in a text. Chapter 1 examines the theoretical underpinnings of story world absorption, sometimes known as…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Reader Text Relationship, Reader Response, Story Reading
Nicole Ann Amato – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore teacher candidates' response to young adult literature (prose and comics) featuring fat identified protagonists. The paper considers the textual and embodied resources readers use and reject when imagining and interpreting a character's body. This paper explores how readers' meaning making was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Cartoons, Body Weight, Self Concept
Jongsun Wee; Ruth Quiroa – Social Studies, 2024
This qualitative study examined the written responses of 58 undergraduate, preservice teachers in three online children's literature courses to the graphic novel, When stars are scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed. Findings from a summative content analysis of participants' written responses showed five response themes: Connections…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Online Courses, Childrens Literature, Cartoons
Heather Marshall – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
The protection and regulation of religious expression present complex challenges. Blasphemy laws, which criminalize acts deemed disrespectful to religious beliefs, have been abolished in England, allowing for broader freedom of expression. However, concerns and discussions about blasphemy persist. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman (2023), has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Beliefs
Asli Balci; Hüseyin Kotaman; Begüm Topuz In – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
The aim of this research is to examine the impact of reading storybooks and the presence of different characters such as humans, animals, and fantasy characters in storybooks on children's costly sharing behaviour. A total of 235 children participated in the study. The children were presented with 20 stickers and were asked to choose their 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Sharing Behavior
Jill Colton; Frank Serafini; Therese Lovett; Sarah Forrest; Julie Gale; Kerry Gehling; Anne-Marie Shin; Jenni Carter – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2023
In this paper, we draw upon Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading to frame six readings of a picture book. The picture book, "There's a Ghost in This House" by Oliver Jeffers, was selected for a children's literature reading group which brought together literacy researchers and teacher educators to share their encounters with the…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Reading, Reflection, Role
Jeffrey Clapp; Bidisha Banerjee – English in Education, 2024
We extend research on social annotation in education by implementing a new annotation technique in the literature classroom. Over the course of one year, we invited students to socially annotate literary texts using emojis that reflected their affective responses to those texts. This approach was inspired by new functions of social annotation…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Documentation, Visual Aids, Psychological Patterns
Rachel Skrlac Lo; Angela Wiseman – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
In this paper, we analyse a group of 6 and 7 year olds' interactions during a literacy event. We explore the complexities of their meaning-making following a read aloud of Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak 1963). Our focus is on discourses of gender/sex/uality, a term that acknowledges the complex relationship between gender, sex and sexuality,…
Descriptors: Children, After School Programs, Sex, Sexuality
Peter Fischer; Barbara Thies – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
In a rapidly changing information landscape, science communicators need to find new ways to engage audiences, make their information memorable and increase attitudes towards scientists. Evidence suggests that stories could be an effective tool for these goals, but few studies tested experimentally whether they are advantageous to non-stories in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Story Reading, Reader Text Relationship
Causarano, Antonio – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
This paper explores the importance of students responding to children's books for diversity and disabilities. The main claim of the paper is that we need to explore new ways of engaging children to respond to diversity beyond the traditional model of Reader's Response Theory. Even though Reader's Response Theory is a very important framework to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Disabilities, Reader Response, Criticism
Evan K. Perrault; Tamara F. Loew; William G. Evans – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To assess the efficacy of utilizing dining hall napkins as a novel health messaging strategy to promote mindfulness. Participants: Undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university. Methods: Utilizing a place-based promotional strategy, mindfulness messages were printed on over 8-million napkins at dining halls. Surveys (N = 573)…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Eating Habits, Communication (Thought Transfer), Written Language
Rong Zhang; Sally Brown; Judith Lysaker – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
Young children read wordless books as an important early literacy learning activity. This study explores oral narrative construction and image reading of a wordless book by six K-2 children. Through a cross-case analysis, the results indicate growth of coherence and cohesion building in the verbal narratives across grade levels, as well as a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Alicia Curtin – Education 3-13, 2024
This paper examines literacy as a sociocultural, personal and human practice dependent on and derived through relationships between people, settings and culture. Drawing on a recent empirical research study that combines learner, teacher and author perspectives [Curtin (2023) "Reading and Writing Pathways Through Children's and Young Adult…
Descriptors: Literacy, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reader Text Relationship