Visualizing Gene Luen Yang's 'American Born Chinese'

By using a graphic organizer we can help students focus on what they already know and see how they can deepen their

think critically about story elements and character traits which may be depicted through the images and pictures.

Mr. Stepien stated that the reason he has the students formulate questions and writes them on the board is to help the students see the process. He stated the as profesionals we often skip the chart making because we've already developed a pattarn of calling in our minds the important questions we want to consider. He then stated if you watch a really good expert problem solver at work it almost looks invisbale,that thinking process. However, if you watch a good problme solver who gets stuck, you can almost see thier brain go back and say what did I miss. This metacognition thinking about the way they're thinking, has really gotta be devloped in kids. The chart process is a great way for kids to give explicit attention to what thier brain ought

This type of medium of presenting a story allows the author to exhibit their creative ability by co-aligning the story along with the pictures designed by the illustrator. Although having two different writers may pose difficulties in regards for the plot and have potential for disagreements on certain topics, the outcome fosters the development of an innovative story telling technique that the reader may find pleasing. Most stories require words to relay the message to the reader. Action plots like WE3 allow pictures to be introduced in substitution for words to allow more freedom and suspense when interpreting the story. This book in the form of a graphic novel is pleasant to read because of all the images that give the reader the opportunity to analyze the pictures and make conclusions based upon how they want the story to

(History/Social Studies) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.5. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.

The teacher is to be an active participant in this learning experience by assisting the children to reflect upon their work through constructive conversations. These can include prompting children’s recall through open-ended questions and providing constructive feedback (Dinham, 2014). This teaching pedagogy stimulates imaginative visualisations whilst extending upon their knowledge

Do you sometimes wish you could just escape your mundane existence? A good book has the ability to transport you into another world, a world where you can let your imaginations and creativity run wild. This magical feeling you experience is the result of vivid descriptions and passion created by the author, which makes reading a book so special. So, if reading is so exciting, why do you think so many book adaptations are made into movies? Why do college students after reading the book would want to watch the movie? The main reason why college students would want to watch the film version of the books Harold and Maude and World War Z to not only compare their imagination of the book to the movie but also use the

The title should be read as “American-Born Chinese”. Jin had always wanted to be more American contrasted to his Chinese background. For instance, he wished he had blond hair or an American athletic talent compared to his intelligence. For him, there was no pride in being Chinese, in fact it was a huge burden for him. He was American at heart, but thrust into the world having Chinese heritage.

Should they be categorised as a visual learner, then efforts will be made to incorporate strong elements of imagery into the course of the intervention. This could include pictures, diagrams, flow charts or timelines which would better aid them in understanding the topics under discussion throughout the programme.

The use of imagery that is explicitly explained can improve student’s comprehension even if the instruction is not up to the ideal standard (Hay & Woolley 2004, p. 85). The enhancement is based on the premise that if the educator explains the vocabulary and various concepts in the text the more familiar the student will become with the text and encode it better in memory and be able to retrieve it from their long term memory (Hay & Wooley 2004, p.

This imaging strategy is a great way to get the students to think in depth and

Each picture book consists of illustrations that are created by a different art media such as watercolor, pencil or paint. A great activity for students is to use different media to create their own story after showing a variety of art medias in illustrated books. I have noticed that the younger

For many years authorial intention was recognised as the only true meaning of a text. A philosopher in the twentieth century, Edmund Hursell, recognised the power of consciousness and the phenomenal reality of an appearance which defers questions about an ultimate end. Phenomenology notes an objects existence, but achieves meaning and finds reality through an active conscious and awareness which registers the object, suspending all presuppositions, inferences, or judgements. A text, when criticised phenomenologically, is seen in aesthetic and affective aspects, existing only in the reader. Scholar Stanley Fish extended these ideas into what is now called Reader-Response Criticism, or R-RC discussing the influence the reader has on the interpretation, making “reading an active activity” (Cowgill 5). This essay will discuss the idea that reading is not a disinterested activity by applying new critic ideals to enforce upon the notion that meaning is drawn from the readers own interpretations, shaped by their active engagement with the text.. More recently, in 2003, Lisa Zunshine further developed the importance of the reader in textual meaning by drawing from cognitive psychology in her article ‘Theory of the Mind’. Zunshine suggests that such an activity is the basis for the very existence of the novel as we know it; the reason we read fiction is because it exercises our mind-reading ability (Polvinen). Readers become active participants in the creation of the work through

The use of different perspectives can change the way a novel comes across: To Kill a Mockingbird, an example of how a narrator can render

Movies, although innovative, cannot stand to literature because of their limitations, and lack of ability to allow viewers to think and be in harmony with them. “A book is edited and crafted, but the writer is still working within an unlimited time canvas. This condensing of books into movies leads to deleted parts from the book or abbreviation of developments within the book.” (6 Reasons The Book Is (Almost