Short Answer

Question 1

What are the visual codes in children’s book illustrations

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Answer 1

Modality 
Angle
Distance from shot
Gaze
Symbolism
Framing
Colour
Music and lighting

Question 2

What is modality visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 2

Level of realism as a result of manipulating

• colour
• background
• detail
• sharpness/blurriness

Question 3

What is angle visual code in children’s book illustrations?

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Answer 3

• Can indicate power relationships in character relationships or among characters and the landscapes.
• positions viewer to take a particular POV
• emphasises an action sequence

Question 4

What is angles are there to disorientate the audience visual code in children’s book illustrations?

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Answer 4

• low angle: power of character/object
• eye level: allows audience to get personal to character
• high angle: character valnurable or lacking power
• worms eye angle: large/powerful
• canted angle: psychological unease/tension
• birds eye: establishes shot and characters relationship to it

Question 5

What is distance of shot of visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 5

Establishes social distances

Question 6

What is gaze visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 6

Establishes relationship with viewer and influences emotional response which is a useful way to convey meaning in a shot

Question 7

With gaze, what is a intra-diegetic and extra-diegetic shot?

Answer 7

Infra-diegetic: character looking at something within text

Extra-diegetic: character looking at something outside of text

Question 8

What is direct/demand gaze

Answer 8

Character looking directly at reader/audience

Question 9

What is symbolism visual code in children’s book illustrations?

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Answer 9

• Images or objects that carry well known meanings
• objects that suggest ideas in addition to or beyond literal sense
• use of an image to represent one or more often complex ideas

Question 10

What is framing visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 10

Boundaries or lines may be placed around images to focus viewers attention in certain ways

Question 11

What are framing examples?

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Answer 11

Close up
Extreme close up 
Medium shot
Long shot
Tilted up/down

Question 12

What is colour visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 12

• certain events, moods or topics that are associated with specific colours

Question 13

What does black/white do

Answer 13

Examine the use of contrast; light and darkness

Question 14

What are coloured images used for?

Answer 14

Signify feelings/evoke response

Eg red passion, blue peace

Question 15

What is music and lighting visual code in children’s book illustrations?

Answer 15

• tv/film (visual genres) use music and lighting effects to create meaning
• lighting contributes to the mood and suggests interpretation of a character

Question 16

What can music convey in visual codes?

Answer 16

The theme, mood and atmosphere

Question 17

What is an example of music visual code

Answer 17

Score - extra diegetic designed to envoke films desired mood for the audience

Question 18

Music heard by characters in film is called?

Answer 18

Diegetic music

Question 19

What does a spelling inventory feature guide do?

Answer 19

Tests spelling using feature points

Question 20

What are some feature points listed in a feature guide

Answer 20

1) short vowels
2) consonant digraphs and blends
3) long vowel patterns

Question 21

What are the uses of children’s literature in classrooms?

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Answer 21

• shared and modelled reading
• exemplar/mentor texts to support writing
• guided reading
• independent reading (book clubs, author studies, character analysis, readers theatre)

Question 22

What are the values of children’s literature in classrooms?

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Answer 22

1) enjoyment
2) fosters imagination and inspiration
3) develops knowledge and insight
4) develops understanding and empathy
5) builds and acknowledges heritage and cultural identity
6) develops moral reasoning

Question 23

How you would you attend to students immediate spelling needs in a context of whole class instruction, incorporating gradual release of responsibility

Answer 23

• use words their way stages to differentiate activities based on spelling test results of a whole class spelling list

Question 24

How would you use words their way to differentiate activities based on spelling test results of a whole class spelling list?

Answer 24

Students who present at a cat 3 will need heavier scaffolding than those presenting at a cat 5 skill.

Conduct a writers workshop to manage GRR

• cat 5 do independent work in guided reading time
• cat 4 and 3 go into two groups according to needs
• cat 4 focuses on “harder suffixes”
• cat 3 focuses on “longer vowels” - heavy scaffolding for their guided reading activity that follows may be needed

This gives teachers time to review spelling list words with students too