EJ632340 CS761418
Title: Urban Kindergartners' Literary Understanding of Picture Storybooks.
Author(s): Sipe, Lawrence; Bauer, Jeffrey
Source: New Advocate, v14 n4 p329-42 Fall 2001
Publication Date: 2001
ISSN: 0895-1381
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJMAR2002
Examines the oral responses of a class of urban kindergartners as stories were read aloud to them by their teacher, with the purpose of describing these responses as evidence of literary understanding. Finds that the children did not understand the stories as rigid and unbending structures, but as the raw materials for molding a variety of meanings. (SG)
Descriptors: Kindergarten; *Listening Comprehension; *Picture Books; Primary Education; *Reading Aloud to Others; Teacher Role; *Urban Schools
