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The Link between Text Difficulty, Reading Speed and Exploration of Printed Text during Shared Book Reading
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Roy-Charland, Annie; Perron, Melanie; Turgeon, Krystle-Lee; Hoffman, Nichola; Chamberland, Justin A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
In the current study the reading speed of the narration and the difficulty of the text was manipulated and links were explored with children's attention to the printed text in shared book reading. Thirty-nine children (24 grade 1 and 15 grade 2) were presented easy and difficult books at slow (syllable by syllable) or fast (adult reading speed)…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Difficulty Level, Young Children, Elementary School Students
"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