The Importance Of Abstract Alphabet

The font of the text on the front cover, and throughout the book for that matter, is in an untidy scrawl that is both important - in that it is in a bold font and is a demanding colour (either black or white) - and is informal, imperfect, personal and human - in that it is handwritten. These aspects combine to show the picture-book

When given the choice of seven activities all three of the children, aged two years old, went straight for the sandpit to draw letters in the sand with thick and long sticks. The children doing the activity love to draw by making shapes and different movements with a variety of implements, for example paint, colouring pencils or chalk, which is similar to writing in the sand in many different ways. This means spelling out the letters in the sand can be used as a way of stimulating interest in writing.

Introduction to reading comes through phonetic reading boxes. The reading boxes are cleverly organized, going from simple to the complex. Reading does not follow the same process of writing, which is taking our own thoughts and symbolizing. When we read, it is not our language with which we are working with, it is the author’s language. Reading is the analysis of the language followed by a synthesis. Story telling and socio-dramatic play in the environment can help the child develop an imagination that fosters a higher capability to understand what is being read to them.

The author of this book did make use of literary elements to tell the story. These elements are also used in other picture books such as lines, shapes, color and speech bubble. The book is a graphic novel and dialogue takes majority of the writing in the book. The dialogical and concise style of writing of the author including the pictures

Book 2: The illustrations are the only thing in this story that keeps the reader intrigued. Without them you would not have a story at all, just random words that have no rhyme or reason to them. Furthermore, if you did not have the words in the book it would be easy to tell where the story is going and help you predict what is happening on the page. It is almost like the creator of the story wants the reader to use their imagination and create their own story by simply looking at the pictures of the

several children by teaching them the way to endure the trials of life by developing six

Imagine living in a simple world with no color, no imagination with truly no meaning to life, just taking everything day by day. Now relate that to reading, without knowing how to read you would not be able to learn about people, places, past and present events, or even the great unlimited things that go on in this world. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss. When we read our brains automatically translate the words into pictures. Some may be able to do it better than others but that is something we all do when reading. If you are a person who has reading and writing challenges it is best to tackle that obstacle quickly. Not being able to read or write is a

Despite their unique styles of writing and subject matters, both Roger Bonair-Agard and Gloria Anzaldua heavily employ imagery to evoke awareness of the scope of the problem in their audience. Bonair-Agard opens his poem with imagery describing his problem with the standard method used to teach the alphabet, stating that “A was for apples in a country that grew mangoes and X was for xylophone when I was learning how to play the steelpan” (Bonair 8-9)”.

Phonics advocates have been arguing that in order for children to learn to read, they need to have an explicit instruction in the rules of printed text in order to read properly. The phonics approach has been described as “bottom up” as it teaches the children to decode text and then the meaning and understanding will follow while the whole word approach is described as “top down,” as the children depend on the pictures within the book, form hypothesis and make predictions of the words with the text of the book being read (Wren, 2003).

So you see, pictures, even in books help minds to develop each time you take a glance at them. You gain that freedom in your mind and can grow and expand to photography, galleries, museums, and even creations of your own personal art... the possibilities seem endless. I would conclude that picture books are helpful to people of all ages, especially the minds of children. Will you ever look at books the same

What I liked about this book was that the illustrator used a combination of photographs along with drawing and put them in to one big book. I like the stack of letter that are photographed in the begging of the book because they look so real and then having Duncan’s name on write on the front of the letters in crayon is just an awesome way to putting the two creations together and making them one. I also like how each page has a drawing corresponding to that color and they drawing look realistic to how a child would draw a picture. So children can look at that draw and think hey that how I draw my elephant or my dragons and trees. In addition, the book brings in what every child like to do drawing by bring the crayon they draw with to life and giving them a voice to talk.

Many people associate colorful pages full of images with childishness, and therefore to be taken less seriously as a work of literature or with no lasting literary merit. However, the way that it portrays what the Jews endured during the Holocaust enlightens the readers. The drawings, which depicted gruesome and inhumane scenes like being beaten and starvation, created a different experience as opposed to novels because the images are much more expressive than words. In addition, You can see what the author himself is trying to show through the illustrations. For example, some readers have troubles visualizing a scene or place, but the pictures make up for it. This pulls even the reluctant or disabled readers since it helps them understand the text better. In Maus I, Spiegelman shows a sketch of how Vladek and his friends hid from the Nazis. In order to avoid being caught, they “made a brick wall filled high with coal. Behind this wall we could be a little safe” (110). Some people wouldn’t be able to understand what Vladek meant, so the drawing assists them along the story. This makes them comprehend what’s happening because the pictures expresses the text. Graphic novels bring in various audience since art is

I chose to read and comment on Barbara Kiefer’s “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Kiefer’s main point in writing this essay was to get the message across that children enjoy picture books that allow them to identify and make connections with the characters or the plots, and that while reading and analyzing the pictures, they gain a better sense of aesthetics and how to interpret them.

Encourages children to read familiar stories independently by relating illustrations to the text. (Vukelich & Christie, 2004, p.8)

Even before a young child can read or write they learn the alphabet as the beginning of interpreting the process of reading and writing. Equally a small child can generally recognise popular signs and symbols, such as the “M” for McDonalds or the Coke symbol before they can read. Just as society associates signs and symbols with various meanings, artists convey their thinking, beliefs and feelings to the audience through their works. This can be described as visual language or how images are used to communicate messages. This communication is vital to