Learning Outcome 01
Read the rules
Identify visual, textual, spatial and narrative conventions in picture books.
Developed across Weeks 1–3 and 8
Week 01How Should a Picture Book Behave?What a picture book seems to do without trying — and what happens once you go looking for the rules underneath it.Explore WeekOpen Lecture
Week 02The Picture Isn’t What You ThinkOne source image, four different framings — and what each one quietly tells the reader to assume.Explore WeekOpen Lecture
Week 03Words and Pictures DisagreeOne fixed sentence, three pictures — and three different things a reader has to do with them.Explore WeekOpen Lecture
Week 08Read It the Wrong WaySix fixed cards, two different orders, two meaningfully different stories — and a way for a reader to find both.Explore WeekOpen Lecture