Panel 10: Critical Literacy and Pedagogy

Panel 10 (Room 156) 3:15 – 4:15
Chair: Eric Meyers

Kathie Shoemaker, University of British Columbia
Visual and Verbal Cohesive Resources used to Construct Coherent Picturebook Texts for
Young Children.

Lindsay Bromley and Alexis Birner, University of British Columbia
Critical Literacy: Using Picturebooks to Read the World

Justin Unrau, University of British Columbia
Unreliable Instructions: Book-Failure and Critical Readership in Fantasy for Young
Readers

Panel 7: “You Want Me to Read on That?” Apps, eBooks, and Multimodal Texts

Panel 7 (Room 156) 2:00 – 3:00 P.M.
Chair: Eric Meyers

Cynthia Nugent, University of British Columbia
Picturebook Theory and the Touchscreen Picturebook App

Teresa Lin, University of British Columbia
Multimodal Electronic Books and Mobile Apps as Resources for Supporting Struggling
Readers in Secondary Schools

Lindsay Zebrowski, Simon Fraser University
“Beyond the Book”: Preliminary Observations on Childrens’ Engagement with Digital
Texts