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CEDAR CITY -- When Momoko Hagioka was a little girl, growing up in Kobe, Japan, she went to kamishibai in the library. Kamishibai (pronounced kah-mee-she-bye) is something similar to an American "preschool story hour." But instead of reading from a book, and flipping it around to show the illustrations, Japanese librarians use a series of large pictures to illustrate the tale. The words to the story are printed on the back of the pictures.
In Hagioka's kindergarten class -- and in her early grades of elementary school -- the teachers also did kamishibai. For decades, in Japan, kamishibai storyboards have been an important "strategy" for teaching children to read, Hagioka says.See the full content of this document
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Telling a Story
When she was a child, she enjoyed kamishibai so much that she did it for her friends. She painted her own pictures and used them to tell dramatic stories about tidal waves and tigers.
Earlier this month, Hag...See the full content of this document
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