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Towards A Literature of Actions: Green Informational Picturebooks and Critical Engagement with Fighting Climate Change
This article investigates selected environmental informational picturebooks in which – often in both the main text and the peritext – readers find...
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Ozone Layer Depletion in Children’s Books Available in Greece: examining accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in texts
This article discusses the content accuracy in the representation of causes of ozone layer depletion in children’s books. The current study analyzed...
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A Snapshot of Early Childhood Teachers’ Read-Aloud Selections
The practice of reading aloud to children is ubiquitous in early childhood classrooms. Teachers read aloud to young children to entertain, to build...
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Examining Agency in Children’s Nonfiction Picture Books
Given increased attention toward nonfiction and informational texts due to recent educational reforms in the nation, it is critical to examine how...
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Picturebooks and Young Children: Potential, Power, and Practices
Picturebooks play a vital role in the lives and learning of young children. These complex, multimodal texts offer unique opportunities for...
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Gendered Assumptions in the Framing of Fitness in Sports Nonfiction for Young Adult Readers
This Critical Comparative Content Analysis employs theories of poststructuralist feminism to examine two versions of a nonfiction fitness text for...
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Mathematics Content in Early Childhood Classroom Libraries: Alignment with Common Core Mathematics Standards
In this study, researchers examined the math-related expository books found in 23 first-grade classroom libraries to determine specific mathematical...
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Adopting Ocean-Themed Picture Books to Promote Ocean Literacy in Primary Education
Children’s literature about the ocean is a valuable learning tool for increasing ocean literacy in formal education. This instruction is,...
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An Analysis of Grade 4 Reading Textbooks used in Mainland China: Do the Texts and Activities Support Higher Order Reading Comprehension Skills?
The current study focused on the required Grade 4 reading textbooks published by Mainland China's People's Education Press. Using the...
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“Reading is Social”: Dialogic Responses to Interactive Read-Alouds with Nonfiction Picturebooks
Children often prefer nonfiction to fiction books but historically, teachers have neglected nonfiction books during reads alouds. The present study...
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Investigating primary pre-service teachers' perceptions of nonfiction picturebooks
This study explores the factors contributing to the imbalance between fiction and nonfiction materials in primary school classrooms, with a specific...
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Bilingual Students’ Meaning-Making Strategies When Exploring Wordless Picturebooks in Interactive Shared Reading
A limited number of studies have investigated how different genres of wordless picturebooks impact children’s interactions and story creations in the...
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Gender differences in reading medium, time, and text types: Patterns of student reading habits and the relation to reading performance
Reading habits play an active role in promoting students’ reading skills and making them prepared to participate in modern society. Gender...
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Emergency Children’s Literature: Rapidly Representing COVID-19 in Digital Texts for Young People in the United Kingdom
This chapter investigates the appearance of picturebooks and stories which sought to rapidly mediate the first waves of COVID-19, circulated online...
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Exploring Books for Beginning Readers: Comparing Leveled Readers and Geisel Award Books
The aim of the study was to examine two types of texts for beginning readers. While leveled readers tend to be widely used by teachers, less well...
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‘This is My Favorite Book’: Exploring Children’s Perspectives on Books and Reading
This qualitative study examined kindergarten children’s responses to their favorite books and their perspectives on reading at home and school. Data...
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Pinkwashing Picturebooks: Reading Homonational Heroes Through Contemporary US LGBTQ + Biographies
This article reports on a critical content analysis of contemporary picturebook biographies featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or...
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Content Analysis of Portrayals of Climate Change in Turkish Picturebooks
Carefully chosen picturebooks offer a developmentally appropriate medium for hel** children understand even the most complex challenges. However,...
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A Critical Content Analysis of Children’s Nonfiction Books of Korea
This article analyzes 32 nonfiction picture books about South Korea, drawing on Said’s (in: Essed and Goldberg (eds) Race critical theories,...
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NILC-Metrix: assessing the complexity of written and spoken language in Brazilian Portuguese
The objective of this paper is to present and make publicly available the NILC-Metrix, a computational system comprising 200 metrics proposed in...
