Interactions about Text and Pictures: What Can We Learn from a Shared Reading?.

Many, Joyce E.

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ERIC Number: EJ394999

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Publication Date: 1989

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Interactions about Text and Pictures: What Can We Learn from a Shared Reading?

Many, Joyce E.

Reading Research and Instruction, v28 n4 p48-59 Sum 1989

Compares discourse between an adult and children as they make meaning of and respond to text and pictures. Finds the adult used a non-directive format during discourse about pictures and a question-response format during conversation about text. Finds that the adult initiated the majority of exchanges about text. (RS)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discourse Analysis, Illustrations, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Readiness, Reading Research, Story Reading

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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