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Graphic texts : literacy enhancing tools in early childhood /
The message of the book is straightforward and easy to apply: it derives from the interweaving of long years of field work with a solid theoretical background. The practice advocated presents children with the opportunity to confront contents and situations which are only too often considered inacce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam :
Sense Publishers,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- The structure of the book
- Graphic texts as permanent external symbol systems
- The development of perception and understanding of graphic texts
- Use of non-verbal graphic texts at preschool
- Pedagogical approach
- ch. 2. Drawings and illustrations
- The development of the ability to interpret drawings as symbols
- The development of the ability to produce representational pictures
- The cognitive and comunicative functions of drawings
- Illustrations
- Drawings and illustrations as a bridge to writing
- Narrative illustrations
- Scientific illustrations
- Children's ability to distinguish between narrative illustrations and scientific illustrations
- Activities with illustrations
- ch. 3. Photographs
- Photography
- Photographic genres
- Curatorship
- The development of the comprehension of the object
- photography
- photograph relationship
- The contribution of photography to the interaction in educational settings
- Activities with photographs
- ch. 4. Icons : concise and easy to combine symbols
- Introduction
- Represented contents
- Perception and understanding of icons
- Effective icon design
- Preschool children's understanding and designing of icons
- Using icons in preschool
- Activities with icons
- ch. 5. Maps
- Cognitive spaces
- Representation of spatial relationships from a developmental perspective
- Maps as tools for spatial representation
- Factors that influence the ability to identify objects and locations in maps
- Spatial representation in maps and people's ability to navigate
- Map drawing
- Maps as empowering tools for preschool children's interaction with their surroundings
- Activities with maps
- ch. 6. Calendars as tools for the development of time notions
- Concepts of time
- The developmet of time concepts among children
- The contribution of calendars to the extension of cognition and conceptualization of time
- Activities with calendars
- ch. 7. Epilogue : integrated texts.