cues are vital aids for their comprehension. When children are young they start off by ‘reading’ the pictures as a strategy for developing an understanding of what is happening in stories and use those as explanations for the vocabulary used (Raising Children Network, 2014). Without these, children have no real means of actually making sense of the text read. Therefore, in order to educate our children fully in literacy, we need to include picture books in their repertoire. (Bearne,1999).
Goodman (1967) states that children also draw on syntactic and semantic cues to bring meaning from reading. Syntactic cues and semantic are based on the child’s own knowledge of the world and their understanding of how language is structured for them to derive
Goodman (1967) states that children also draw on syntactic and semantic cues to bring meaning from reading. Syntactic cues and semantic are based on the child’s own knowledge of the world and their understanding of how language is structured for them to derive