This accessible text will show students and class teachers how
they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through
the medium of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion
of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion, Roche
focuses on carefully chosen picturebooks as a stimulus for
discussion, and shows how they can constitute an accessible,
multimodal resource for adding to literacy skills, while at the
same time developing in pupils a far wider range of literary
understanding.
By allowing time for thinking about and digesting the pictures
as well as the text, and then engaging pupils in classroom
discussion, this book highlights a powerful means of developing
children s oral language ability, critical thinking, and visual
literacy, while also acting as a rich resource for developing
children s literary understanding. Throughout, Roche provides rich
data and examples from real classroom practice.
This book also provides an overview of recent international
research on doing interactive read alouds, on what critical
literacy means, on what critical thinking means and on picturebooks
themselves.
Lecturers on teacher education courses for early years or
primary levels, classroom teachers, pre-service education students,
and all those interested in promoting critical engagement and
dialogue about literature will find this an engaging and very
insightful text."
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