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ERIC Number: EJ1200920
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-0561
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Sites of Synergy: Strategies for Readers Navigating Nonfiction Picture Books
Shimek, Courtney
Reading Teacher, v72 n4 p519-522 Jan-Feb 2019
The category of nonfiction picture books has changed in the past few decades, putting more emphasis on engaging writing styles, attention to accuracy, and using synergic relations between images and texts. As a result of this shift, the strategies taught to students for reading nonfiction picture books must change. The author presents five strategies that readers navigating new nonfiction picture books can use to comprehend all of the information provided by authors and illustrators: reading the pictures, tracking the words, focusing on the medium, analyzing the back matter, and highlighting the text in visual elements. When readers use these strategies, new nonfiction picture books encourage them to think critically, engage in their own research, and dive deeply into the content they are reading about.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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