The importance of the picture book and the influence of visual literacy for the alphabetization

Abstract

The visual literacy goes beyond seeing an image, it seeks to understand it through tridimensional objects, photographies or different picture and symbolical representations. Therefore, this article aims do highlight the importance of the visual literacy in the child alphabetization. The methodology used for this study was bibliographical review without rigid search criteria. It covered Jean Piaget, Donis A. Dondis and Marília Forgearini Nunes as basic theorists in an attempt to analyze and reflect over the main concepts that lead the approached theme: alphabetization and literacy, image language, visual literacy, analogical thinking in literacy and picture book. It´s meaningful that the child, before even learning to read, get in touch with the picture books, observing, recognizing, interpreting, recreating the concrete object notion in order to understand the symbolic object. It stimulates the perception, sensibility and creativity. After all, the writing is also considered a visual symbolical representation. Both languages (visual and verbal) are relevant in the process of literacy.