What Children Are Looking at During Shared Storybook Reading
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- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 16 (11), 913-920
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01636.x
Abstract
Two studies were conducted to determine the extent to which young children fixate on the print of storybooks during shared book reading. Children's books varying in the layout of the print and the richness of the illustrations were displayed on a computer monitor. Each child's mother or preschool teacher read the books while the child sat on the adult's lap wearing an EyeLink headband that recorded visual fixations. In both studies, children spent very little time examining the print regardless of the nature of the print and illustrations. Although fixations on the illustrations were highly correlated with the length of the accompanying text and could be altered by altering the content of the text, fixations to the text were uncorrelated with the length of the text. These results indicate that preschool children engage in minimal exploration of the print during shared book reading.Keywords
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