Choose Your Own Adventure: Interactive E-Books to Improve Word Knowledge and Comprehension Skills

arXiv:2403.02496v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The purpose of this feasibility study was to examine the potential impact of reading digital interactive e-books on essential skills that support reading comprehension with third-fifth grade students. Students read two e-Books that taught word learning and comprehension monitoring strategies in the service of learning difficult vocabulary and targeted science concepts about hurricanes. We investigated whether specific comprehension strategies including word learning and strategies that supported general reading comprehension, summarization, and question generation, show promise …

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