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Picture Books as a Social Studies Resource in the Elementary School Classroom. ERIC Digest.

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Manifold, Marjorie Cohee – 1997

Picture books are useful tools for teaching many abstract and complex concepts of the social studies at the elementary level. They allow students to develop visual literacy through sustained viewing time necessary for exploration, critique, and reflection on the images portrayed. Numerous examples of picture books are presented to support such…

Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Critical Viewing, Elementary Education