Wordless storybooks: benefits, framework and strategy

Children literacy development

Wordless books benefits for children
Receptive skills development
Productive skills development

Framework and strategy in using wordless storybooks to support the development of

receptive and productive skills

THE USE OF WORDLESS STORYBOOKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RECEPTIVE

AND PRODUCTIVE SKILLS AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Wordless story books have been widely used in the classroom especially among the
preschool children as it helps in the development of both receptive and productive skills.
These books consist of many images that are arranged in a way that story line is formed
without any single word to describe the plotline. It is a great book to boost up the children
creativity and imagination. Thus, wordless book can be a positive teaching tool to help
the young children to read and as a model for the formation of written language.
In this assignment, I have discussed a brief definition of wordless books and its benefits
to young children. Furthermore, I have discussed thoroughly on how the wordless books
help in the development of receptive and productive skills among preschool children. I
have selected four preschool children to try out the strategies that showing how wordless
books assist both the development of receptive and productive skills. In other words, two
children have been selected to represent the receptive skills – each for listening and
reading skills, while the remaining two children are representing the productive skills –
each for speaking and writing skills. In addition, the four selected children have been
labelled as Child A that representing for listening skill, Child B for reading skill, Child C
for Speaking skill and Child D for writing skill. Lastly, framework has been drawn in a
table form to summarize the strategies used for each child.

2.0 WORDLESS BOOKS AND ITS BENEFITS

Wordless storybook can be defined as …
 Wordless books are a new way to read to children. Reading picture books with little or no
words to children is a great ways to strengthen children listening skills and vocabularies.
Moreover, telling stories through picture can provide meaningful context that can enhance the
children oral and written communication skills.
There are many advantages of using wordless books with children. First and foremost, the
use of picture books can help aide children’s concept about print. In other words,
In brief, wordless books indeed have many benefits to both the teachers and the children
especially in developing the children receptive and productive skills.

3.0 DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN’S RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVES SKILLS

4.0 STRATEGIES USE TO DEVELOP EACH CHILD’S RECEPTIVE AND

PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

5.0 FRAMEWORK
SKILLS/ CHILDREN STRATEGY JUSTIFICATION
Teacher makes up their This helps the children
own text based on the connect what he is seeing
LISTENING picture book. with the words the adult
(CHILD A) is speaking, therefore
helping to strengthen his
vocabulary
Ask the children to read Boost up their
RECEPTIVE
the book themselves. imagination
SKILLS
 Let them making up
their own word
READING
 Encourage them to tell
(CHILD B)
what was happening
on each page
 Describe how the
characters was feeling
PRODUCTIVE SPEAKING Storytelling
SKILLS (CHILD C)  The plotline
 Write the text to the
WRITING
wordless book
(CHILD D)


6.0 CONCLUSION