A Stone Sat Still for Children’s Language and Environmental Education

Abstract

The non-fiction picturebook A Stone Sat Still (Wenzel 2019) encourages the readers (children and adults) to observe details, interpret information and think critically about the time scale of the natural world adopting different perspectives and reflecting on changeability and the persistence of natural elements. This paper presents and discusses the complexity of A Stone Sat Still as a combination of visual and verbal resources, and it aims at understanding the affordances of the picturebook as a vehicle to establish meaning during read-aloud performances with children for environmental education in English as an additional language.

Keywords

• non-fiction picturebook
• children
• read-aloud performances
• environmental education
• eal