Action Research for Improving Children's Reading Skills by Picture Book Teaching

• Main Authors: Mei-Ying Chen, 陳梅瑛
• Other Authors: Yi-Ping Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80415431748569526464

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育行政碩士在職進修專班 === 102 === Action Research for Improving Children's Reading Skills by Picture Book Teaching Abstract This research aims at improving children's reading skills by picture book teaching. There are three main purposes of this research: first, to inquire the process of picture book teaching implementation; second, to evaluate the performance of children's reading skills while applying the picture book teaching; third, to address the difficulties, reflections and professional growth that the researcher has in the study. Action research was adopted in this study and the objects of this research are eight children by intended sampling. The research tools included records of the observation, reflections and anecdote. Then data analyzing and discussing was followed. The teaching activities were planned based on two topics: animals and green heroes. The picture books close to children’s experience were applied and their forms included predicting picture books, picture books without words and story picture books. The four steps combining the picture book teaching with whole language learning were as follows: 1. demonstration and observation along with four kinds of questions, including what to know well and review, what to understand and review, what to interpret and reflect, and what to create and deepen; 2. participation; 3. role-playing exercise; 4. presentation of learning outcome. The results of this research are: 1. Children become more interested and sensitive to words by the implementation model of picture book teaching with whole language learning in classroom. 2. Children acquire how to read, comprehend, and think by the question strategy in picture book teaching. 3. The use of the question strategy would be affected by children's concentration. 4. Parents' attitude would affect the picture book teaching. 5. The applications of picture book question strategy have to include the plot of the story, the feelings of the characters and the life experience. Keywords: Picture book, picture book teaching, reading skills