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ERIC Number: EJ632345
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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Filling the Gaps in Text: Picture Book Reading in the Middle Years.
Bainbridge, Joyce; Pantaleo, Sylvia
New Advocate, v14 n4 p401-11 Fall 2001
Discusses how four picture books, "Granpa,""The Tunnel,""The Wolf," and "Shortcut," provide the stimulus for children to become more effective readers through the use of sophisticated literary strategies. Explores some of the "gap-filling" required of readers as they deal with the indeterminacies of texts. Discusses classroom activities based on the four books. (SG)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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