English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Reading picture books is serious fun
Volume 4 Number 2 September 2005
Sara Tulk (Hertfordshire and Essex High School for Girls, Bishop's Stortford)
This narrative explores how picture books can be
used in the literacy classroom for pupils aged between 11-12 years. It
discusses the links children can make when interpreting pictures and
then returning to text. It highlights pupils' ability to understand
metaphor and narrative structure when reading picture books, and how
they can show their understanding of complex ideas through drawing
pictures themselves.