This book presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. It is the first to focus specifically on young children. Relevant to contemporary young children with a wide variety of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, this dynamic volume includes a wealth of examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Language And Literacy .

There are 320 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2007 by Teachers' College Press .