First Published in 2005. All teachers recognise how crucial is the acquisition of good reading
skills. This book will help teachers understand how pupils learn and will help them to meet …

We examined the developmental relationships between home literacy environment (parent
teaching, shared book reading) and emergent literacy skills (phonological awareness, letter …

Two experiments tested how the number of illustrations in storybooks influences 3.5‐year‐
old children's word learning from shared reading. In Experiment 1, children encountered …

The purpose of this study was to understand children's visual attention during shared
storybook reading when the print and picture area sizes are identical, as well as to …

This study explored how pre-K children process an e-book with narration through eye
movements, and also the effects of visual cues on preschoolers' visual attention to text, word …

Children's literacy skills in schools and at home are widely supported by technologies
designed to advance their development. Surprisingly, the unique effects of specific interface …

Previous studies have suggested that children's emotion comprehension begins to develop
in the early stages of childhood and has been linked to prosocial behaviours, displays of …

Abstract Research (Evans & Saint‐Aubin,) suggests systematic patterns in how young
children visually attend to storybooks. However, these studies have not addressed whether …

The inclusion of technology in schools, coupled with the importance of promoting reading for
students with difficulties in particular, has increased the need for investigating processes that …

There has been a rapid proliferation of electronic books in recent years. Given that dual-
language books may impose extra cognitive load on children's information processing …