Browsing by Author "Sahlberg, Suvi"

Today children live in mediated culture. Therefore they need many different kind of literacy skills. Basic reading skills are the foundation that it is built on. Children´s literature has its own role in supporting the process of learning to read. The purpose of this qualitative content ana-lysis is to find out what kind of typographical, illustrational and textual ways to support pro-cess of learning to read can be found in Finnish learning to read books. Collected data invol-ves thirteen beginner readers books that are published in Finland. I had three categories in the focus of analysis: typography, texts and illustrations. Through analysis, the main focus on beginner readers books was based on readability and in the clarity of illustrations. The major finding was that some of the books was really targeted for children that are just starting to learn how to read but others was for children that already can read. The another result was that hyphenated text or increased text size are not the only factors that help the progress of learning to read. This study can be used as a support when parents are choosing a book when their children are in a stage of learning to read. Authors, illustrators and graphic designers that are planning to do a book for children that are learning to read can use this study for their benefit.