Wordless Books: An Approach to Visual Literacy.

Lindauer, Shelley L. Knudsen

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Publication Date: 1988

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Wordless Books: An Approach to Visual Literacy.

Lindauer, Shelley L. Knudsen

Children's Literature in Education, v19 n3 p136-42 Fall 1988

Argues that wordless books allow prereading children to create their own stories, enhance vocabulary acquisition, help children develop "top to bottom" and "right to left" concepts, and promote observation, sequential, visual, and inferential thinking. Describes several ways to use wordless books. Includes bibliography of 36 wordless books. (SR)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Picture Books, Prereading Experience, Reading Readiness, Reading Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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