Entries Tagged as 'picture books'

Using Historical Fiction Picture Books Part One

December 6, 2011 · 2 Comments · Common Core Standards, history, learning, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies, Picture Books, Reading and Writing Enrichment, Reading Comprehension

In the Article “Comprehension Strategies for Reading Historical Fiction Picturebooks” by Suzette Youngs and Frank Serafini in The Reading Teacher, October 2011 along with other important notes struck a chord with me: “Cognitively based reading comprehension strategies (e.g., predicting, summarizing, visualizing) often focus exclusively on written text. However, picture books and many other texts that [...]

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