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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
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Arya, Poonam; Feathers, Karen M. – Reading Psychology, 2012
This study highlights the complex reading processes of two primary grade struggling readers. It provides a more complete picture of the readers' use of all parts of a text, verbal and visual, to construct meaning during reading. The oral reading data show that students used various linguistic strategies to read words, and the eye-tracking data…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Grade 2, Reading Processes, At Risk Students