Multiple Semiotic Sources as Scaffolding for Young Children's Emergent Reading of Picture-Story Books.

Unsworth, Len

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ERIC Number: EJ483561

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Publication Date: 1993

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Multiple Semiotic Sources as Scaffolding for Young Children's Emergent Reading of Picture-Story Books.

Unsworth, Len

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, v16 n2 p1-14 1993

Studies by Unsworth and Williams (1988, 1990) compared the textual variation of purpose-written big books with literary texts. Purpose-written big books help children to predict repetitive clauses that realize explicit and simplistic meanings. (Contains six references.) (JP)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Books, Childrens Literature, Cues, Emergent Literacy, Literary Styles, Reader Text Relationship, Reading, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Semiotics, Text Structure, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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