فاطمه صفرپورانبوهی

The purpose of this research is to investigate how children create meaning with picture books or how they respond to these books. Therefore, this research, which is mainly carried out in a qualitative paradigm, has studied how ten children of the first grade of primary school of Meraj School in Diyalabad village make meaning by using the social constructionism method. The method of sampling participants in the research was to observe the principle of maximum diversity and the sampling method of picture books was the selection of experts, and finally five Iranian books and five foreign books were selected. These books were read for ten sessions in an interactive reading-aloud method adapted from Eden Chambers' Tell Me approach for children, and they collectively made meaning with these books. The data of all ten video recording sessions were analyzed by analogical and inductive content analysis.The method of content analysis is comparative because the theoretical basis of this research is mainly the theory of children's meaning making with Sipe picture books. He places children's responses to picture books in five categories: analytical, intertextual, personal, reflective and dramatic. At the same time, since the research is qualitative and the main approach to data analysis in qualitative research is inductive, this research is also open to induction and has benefited from it. Sipe's theory is a qualitative approach to how children make meaning, which has finally reached five categories. The findings of this research showed that children interacted with each other in the construction of meaning in each of the analytical, intertextual, personal, reflective and executive categories. In the category of intertextual response, they did not provide enough experiences due to the rural environment and the lack of facilities such as picture books and suitable animations. In this study, a new category of children's response called "discovery response" was discovered, in which children discovered unknown concepts, which were not mentioned in Sipe's work. Data analysis also showed that children developed their desired ideas with the help of group members.

Keywords: first grade, interactive reading aloud, reader response, picturebook, meaning-making.