Lifting the flaps on information: purpose and play in non-fiction texts

Smith, Vivienne (2003) Lifting the flaps on information: purpose and play in non-fiction texts. Literacy, 37 (3). pp. 116-122. ISSN 1741-4350

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Abstract

Books with flaps comprise a small, but recognisable sub-genre of non-fiction texts for children. Whilst they are popular with young readers, they sit unhappily within an educational discourse of non-fiction that is dominated by notions of information retrieval and genre theory. This article considers the purpose and function of flaps in a number of texts and proposes that the best of these books provide pertinent lessons for readers about the nature of 'information', and about the playful nature of reading itself.

Author(s):Smith, Vivienne ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9300-776X
Item type:Article
ID code:3394
Keywords:education, children, non-fiction texts, reading, information retrieval, literacy, Education (General), Education, Language and Linguistics
Subjects:Education > Education (General)
Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education
Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator
Date deposited:01 Jun 2007
Last modified:18 Jan 2020 03:32
URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3394
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