There's More than Black and White in Literacy's Palette: Children's Use of Color.

Hubbard, Ruth

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ERIC Number: EJ414726

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Publication Date: 1990

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There's More than Black and White in Literacy's Palette: Children's Use of Color.

Hubbard, Ruth

Language Arts, v67 n5 p492-500 Sep 1990

Explores how visual (pictorial) and verbal (linguistic) systems work together and influence each other as young children create symbol systems. Finds that, for young children, color plays a key role in communicating messages. Shows how art and writing (especially color and light) influence each other in children's literacy development. (SR)

Descriptors: Childrens Art, Color, Educational Research, Ethnography, Grade 1, Literacy, Primary Education, Student Writing Models, Symbolic Language, Visual Literacy, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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