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From: Pauline Tso <paulinetso2_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:17:11 -0700
Hello,
As an author/illustrator, I enjoyed reading about Megan Lambert's Whole Book Approach. A lot of people say that drawing is the foundation of the visual arts, but actually, drawing is just a focusing tool for the true foundation - observation. In all the arts I can think of, acute observation is the core of all craft, and I was delighted to hear about students being guided to use their powers of observation as it pertains to books.
On another angle re: visual literacy - last week, I observed my 11yo daughter, who is usually reading books like "Divergent" now, take a break from such and revisit our fairly extensive picture book collection. She was clearly enjoying them, and was noticing things about the pictures that she didn't pick up on five years ago.
I think it is such a shame that picture books of more than 500 words have fallen out of commercial favor. Picture books with longer texts can be substantially more complex in concept, use of language, and visual literacy than early readers or younger chapter books (not that there is anything wrong with those). You would therefore think they would be capable of holding an older child's interest.
Indeed, one might also guess that such books would be ideal tools in furthering an older child's visual literacy.
To me, visual literacy = visual vocabulary + visual grammar = communication. The more children are exposed to images, the larger their visual vocabulary becomes. The more they are exposed to skilled visual storytellers, the better grasp they have of visual grammar. Why should picture books stop with 8 year olds?
Goodness knows I haven't! :-)
- Pauline Ts'o
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Received on Tue 16 Sep 2014 12:17:53 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:17:11 -0700
Hello,
As an author/illustrator, I enjoyed reading about Megan Lambert's Whole Book Approach. A lot of people say that drawing is the foundation of the visual arts, but actually, drawing is just a focusing tool for the true foundation - observation. In all the arts I can think of, acute observation is the core of all craft, and I was delighted to hear about students being guided to use their powers of observation as it pertains to books.
On another angle re: visual literacy - last week, I observed my 11yo daughter, who is usually reading books like "Divergent" now, take a break from such and revisit our fairly extensive picture book collection. She was clearly enjoying them, and was noticing things about the pictures that she didn't pick up on five years ago.
I think it is such a shame that picture books of more than 500 words have fallen out of commercial favor. Picture books with longer texts can be substantially more complex in concept, use of language, and visual literacy than early readers or younger chapter books (not that there is anything wrong with those). You would therefore think they would be capable of holding an older child's interest.
Indeed, one might also guess that such books would be ideal tools in furthering an older child's visual literacy.
To me, visual literacy = visual vocabulary + visual grammar = communication. The more children are exposed to images, the larger their visual vocabulary becomes. The more they are exposed to skilled visual storytellers, the better grasp they have of visual grammar. Why should picture books stop with 8 year olds?
Goodness knows I haven't! :-)
- Pauline Ts'o
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