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- Title: Students Compose Narratives from a Wordless Picturebook: The Red Book Travels to Ghana, China, And Back to the United States (Report)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 15, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 373 KB
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The purpose of this study was to put the notion of primacy of narratives (Bruner, 1990; Spiro & Taylor, 1987; Wells, 1985, 1986) to an international test by investigating how 3rd-graders from China, Ghana, and the United States used a wordless picturebook to compose oral discourse in their native languages. It is thought that narrative is the easier discourse type and thus is more suitable than others for beginning literacy instruction (Wells, 1985). Scholars (e.g., Langer, 1986) have found that children possess well-developed knowledge of both narrative and expository skills and are, indeed, able at age 8 to make "a fundamental distinction between reports as information-giving and stories as make-believe" (p. 3). Kamberelis (1998) suggests that although primary students display knowledge of both genres, they have substantially more knowledge about narratives than expositions because they are fed more narrative "literacy diets" (p. 7). Based on this foundation, the authors posed two research questions: 1) What are the oral genres composed by 3rd-graders in the contexts of a wordless picturebook? and 2) What similarities and differences in mastery of discourse styles are evident in the oral compositions of the multinational 3rd-graders? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]