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Quality of Book-Reading Matters for Emergent Readers: An Experiment with the Same Book in Regular or Electronic Format.
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de Jong, Maria T.; Bus, Adriana G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
An adult read to 12 children from a regular paper book. Twenty-four children explored a similar electronic book. For half of this group, the electronic book was with and for half without restrictions on games. Regular book format was more supportive of learning story content and phrasing; both formats supported internalization of features of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Books, Children, Individual Differences
The Efficacy of Electronic Books in Fostering Kindergarten Children's Emergent Story Understanding
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de Jong, Maria T.; Bus, Adriana G. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2004
A counterbalanced, within-subjects design was carried out to study the efficacy of electronic books in fostering kindergarten children's emergent story understanding. The study compared effects of children's independent reading of stories electronically with effects of printed books read aloud by adults. Participants were 18 four- to five-year-old…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Independent Reading, Young Children, Childrens Literature