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"If I Point, Do They Look?": The Impact of Attention-Orientation Strategies on Text Exploration during Shared Book Reading
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Roy-Charland, Annie; Perron, Melanie; Boulard, Jessica; Chamberland, Justin; Hoffman, Nichola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The current study examined the effect of pointing to the words and using highlighted text by examining eye movements when children in preschool, Grade 1 and 2 were read storybooks of two levels of difficulty. For all children, pointing to and highlighting the text was observed to increase the amount of time and number of fixations on the printed…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
Eye Movements in Shared Book Reading with Children from Kindergarten to Grade 4
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Roy-Charland, Annie; Saint-Aubin, Jean; Evans, Mary Ann – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
Previous studies have revealed that preschool-age children who are not yet readers pay little attention to written text in a shared book reading situation (see Evans & Saint-Aubin, 2005). The current study was aimed at investigating the constancy of these results across reading development, by monitoring eye movements in shared book reading, for…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Eye Movements, Kindergarten, Grade 4