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Book: Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader

Chapter: Interacting with texts

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.26033

Blurb:

Considers literary reading as a playful, interactive process, learned in collaboration with more experienced readers and pursued in dialogue with the text itself. Introduces the concepts of intertextuality and polyphony. Notes that the first books children encounter are likely to be picturebooks: multimodal texts which require readers to negotiate two different sense-making systems: words and images.

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