I feel that this article made some wonderful points, but had WAY too many examples. I was really rather bored with it by the third page. It was difficult for me to figure out exactly where they were going with their examples. However, once I muddled through them, I found that they were basically saying that students rely too much on pictures and do not actually think about what is being read within the text. If a story tells of a little curious monkey going to the circus for the day & the teacher asks "what do you notice about the monkey?" the children will more than likely say that he is small or brown or likes bananas.
Today in clinicals, my mentor teacher read a short story to the students. There were not any pictures for them to predict from. When I later asked a student what the story was about, she was able to quickly give me a correct summary from the read aloud. I have never thought about pictures taking away meaning from a book before. Teachers need to learn how to read their students so as to ask probing questions for them to relate their own schemas from as well as how to decipher important text from the not so important. Students need to learn how to not rely on pictures as much as the actual text to help them break down the actual point of the story.
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