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Courtney Shimek – Reading Teacher, 2024
Few studies examine young children's multimodal responses to nonfiction picture books, and even fewer examine teaching practices that encourage these responses. This case study of a kindergarten class illustrates how one teacher regularly conducted interactive whole-group read-alouds using nonfiction picture books. After examining the multimodal…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Reading Aloud to Others, Nonfiction
Zhang, Qiaoping; Sun, Jin; Yeung, Wing-ying – Review of Education, 2023
Using picture books in teaching is a popular trend in early childhood education. However, little attention has been paid to such pedagogy in mathematics learning. For this article, we reviewed 16 empirical studies from the past two decades (2000-2022) regarding the use of picture books in mathematics instruction, in order to investigate their…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews, Mathematics Instruction
Korkmaz, Aysel; Özbay, Ipek; Dedeoglu, Hakan – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
This article contains a representative listing of fictional children's literature titles, which relate to selected geographic concepts. Texts in the picture books were examined based on their geographical concepts. Within the scope of the research, 82 picture storybooks selected through the criterion sampling method were analyzed via content…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Geography
Hsieh, Fu-Pei; Chen, Yun-An; Wu, Hui-Ju; Tsai, Chun-Yen – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
Picture book reading is essential in the early stages of learning and development. The current study aimed to incorporate picture books to improve first graders' scientific thinking, including scientific reasoning and creativity. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. There were 24 students in the experimental group and 23 in the…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
Batic, Janja – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
This article introduces the results of a research survey that involved 443 preschool and classroom teachers. The objective of the investigation was to discover teachers' views on making picture book reading a part of the teaching process, how picture book reading was incorporated, and how a productive visual response to a picture book was…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Picture Books, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Derya Gok – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the meaning-making of children (ages 2-5) as they read and play with picture books related to social justice themes, such as identity and diversity, in a preschool and childcare center. The study goal is to investigate the analysis of children's meaning-making of picture books to understand the social world around them…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Social Justice, Self Concept, Diversity
Op't Eynde, Emke; Depaepe, Fien; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Verschaffel, Lieven; Torbeyns, Joke – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
Recent studies demonstrated that the adult-preschooler interaction during shared book reading (SBR) contributes to its effectiveness (Mol et al., 2008). The level of abstraction, or complexity, of the mathematical questions adults formulate during SBR serves as an indicator of the interaction quality. We aimed to investigate the chance of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Children
Wong, Kit Mei; Cheung, Man Wai William; Chiu, Ka Man – Art Education, 2021
Very few studies have focused on learning about art through picture books. More importantly, teachers are trained as generalists and have minimal knowledge about supporting children to learn art, particularly through picture books. This project aimed to explore the aesthetic learning potential of picture books in kindergartens. The project was…
Descriptors: Art Education, Picture Books, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Rong Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Wordless picture book reading is one of the common literacy practices for young children that happen at schools and homes. This dissertation of three studies explores the reader-text transactions between young children and wordless picture books in three ways: a content analysis of wordless books potentially featuring characters of color, a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Picture Books, Reader Text Relationship, Content Analysis
Huang, Chiu-Hua; Cheng, Fin-Land; Teng, Ching-Yueh – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
The present study created picture books featuring elements of hope theory and conducted a practical teaching program to explore the application of hopeful thinking picture books for economically disadvantaged children, specifically, to understand the teachers' teaching practices of picture book creation. On the basis of hope theory, the current…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Economically Disadvantaged, Teacher Developed Materials, Preschool Children
Suh, Hyunsun – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This study provides an opportunity for young children to express their thoughts about all matters affecting them based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Accordingly, 20 five-year-old children attending a preschool in Korea participated in this study, reading picture books, including animal matters. I recorded and…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Animals, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Lepola, Janne; Kajamies, Anu; Laakkonen, Eero; Niemi, Pekka – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This is a study of early picture book comprehension, its determinants and later development through primary school. More specifically, picture book comprehension was analyzed longitudinally from age 5 to age 9, delineating the unique contributions of vocabulary, metacognitive knowledge and task orientation to the initial level as well as to the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Metacognition, Predictor Variables, Picture Books
Acer, Dilek; Gözen, Göksu – Education 3-13, 2020
Picture book illustrations can provide the opportunity for critical examination of a work of art. There is a growing body of research focusing on how we can respond creatively to the illustrations in picture books as art objects. This study aimed to reveal how children interpret art elements based on various artistic techniques within picture…
Descriptors: Art Education, Picture Books, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Yeh, Shin-Cheng; Li, Hsin-Ya – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
The concept of "sustainable development" was proposed to re-examine the human development model. Initiated by the United Nations, education for sustainable development (ESD) has become an important tool for educators to achieve sustainable development. Although "Early Childhood Education" (ECE) is often taken as a starting…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Reading Material Selection, Delphi Technique, Sustainable Development
Adam, Helen; Harper, Laurie J. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Children's picture books contribute to children's development of gender identity and can impact aspirations and expectations of roles in families and society. However, the world represented in children's books reflects predominantly middle class, heterosexual, male heroes and characters. This paper reports on a cross-cultural study investigating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Picture Books