Mantei, J. & Kervin, L. (2014). Interpreting the images in a picture book: Students make connections to themselves, their lives and experiences. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 13 (2), 76-92.
In this article Mantei and Kervin report on the use of a picture book to promote Year 4 students’ making text-to-self connections, which are expressed through their visual art. They argue for a pedagogical approach that creates opportunities for children to respond to picture books through visual art, identifying artworks as powerful avenues of insight into children's funds of knowledge that can inform literacy pedagogy. They demonstrate their views through research findings with Year 4 students using Jeannie Baker’s picture book.