Over the Page...around the Pictures...and into the Squiggles.

Gibbs, Colin

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ERIC Number: EJ373313

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1988

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Over the Page...around the Pictures...and into the Squiggles.

Gibbs, Colin

Australian Journal of Reading, v11 n1 p22-35 Mar 1988

Discusses how beginning readers respond to familiar and unfamiliar stories. States that children begin as inventive readers, using different strategies--such as naming, counting, or structuring--to "read" the text. (MM)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Prereading Experience, Primary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Reading Strategies, Story Grammar, Story Reading

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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