How can I encourage students that picture books are not just for younger students who can’t read the words on the page?
Picture books were, and are still my favorite type of books today. I love being able to see the author’s depiction of the story and the characters in the images. Some of my memories with picture books are when my older brother learned to read, I would sit next to him and look at the pictures in the story and “read” the pictures. My brother would always correct me if I missed any details from the text that were not depicted in the pictures. But looking at the pictures made me feel like I was reading with him. Picture books really influenced my learning because when I was learning to read I had a lot of difficulties with decoding and comprehending text. When I learned to read I still had trouble with comprehension although I could read the words on the page. Pictures in the story helped me with this because I was able to pair up the text I was reading with the pictures in each page and make sense of what was happening in the story. In the reading “It Was Always the Pictures…” by Paula Kluth, Kluth describes how many learners with disabilities learn best when they have an image of what they are learning about; but I think this is true to for all learners, students can really benefit from visuals. Kluth says, “if you look at a picture, it puts more ideas in your head”. I think this is very true because when I was in grade school and was reading, the pictures in the books would add to the text I was reading, to create a more complete comprehension of the story. Kluth describes picture books as, “typically, in these texts, the pictures don’t just supplement the text; they are as important or central as the text”. I think this is also very true because when I got older I still appreciated picture books because the images had so much to say, and combined with the text they were perfect.
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