P‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍lease note If choosing this option, you must include scans or photographs of the pages you discuss at the beginning of your assignment. You may create these images with any device that you are comfortable using, such as a smartphone. However, make sure the image is clear enough for your tutor to understand your discussion. If the image is unclear, your tutor may not be able to follow your discussion and this will lose you marks. Guidance notes These notes suggest some approaches you might want to take in response to the TMA question, and are intended to help you get started. They are not designed to be used as an essay plan, and you may well want to take a different approach. Make sure you have read through the EA300 Assessment Guide before you begin, paying particular attention to the guidance on referencing and avoiding plagiarism. This question asks you to look at the relationships between images and words in books with pictures, whether they be picture books, picturebooks or illustrated texts, and consider how these relationships work together to create meaning for the reader. Your discussion should be based around a close analysis of three double-page spreads from at least two books with pictures, using the terminology and concepts that you have encountered in t‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍he Block 5 materials. You might start with a consideration of the terms that are applied to different types of books with pictures, for example picture books, picturebooks and illustrated texts, and how these types of books are distinguished. This will help you choose appropriate texts from which to make your selection of page spreads. You will need to carefully consider what opportunities your choice of texts offer for you to develop a detailed discussion of the relationship between words and pictures in children’s texts and the different ways that these words and pictures might convey meaning. Remember that you need to go beyond mere description of your examples. Rather, you should consider how they convey particular aspects of a text, such as character, relationships, narrative, humour or suspense. In addition to the scans or photographs of the double-page spreads that you discuss, you may also include further images to support your points. Please reduce the file size of these before you insert them. Advice can be found in the OU Computing Guide. A useful starting point would be the chapters by Moebius (p. 311–20) and Goldstone (p. 320 –29) in Approaches and Territories. It would also be useful to look at Section 3 and 4 of Online Activities 3: Words and Pi‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍ctures.