Teaching Young Readers to Navigate a Digital Story When Rules Keep Changing

As mobile technologies such as tablets and smartphones offer opportunities to view stories in digital format, young readers are faced with new challenges in the reading task. The authors conducted an exploratory study of digital story applications on a mobile reading device and found that digital st...

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2014-05, Vol.67 (8), p.606-618
Main Authors: Javorsky, Kristin, Trainin, Guy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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Children
Childrens literature
Classroom management
Digital/media literacies
Handheld Devices
Instructional strategies
Instructional strategies, teaching strategies
Literacy
Literature
methods
Mobile devices
Narrative devices
Navigation
New literacies
Pedagogy
Persistence
Portable computers
Reading Instruction
Reading teachers
Smartphones
Story Reading
Strategies
Strategies, methods, and materials
Teaching Methods
teaching strategies
Technology adoption
Writing tablets
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Summary:As mobile technologies such as tablets and smartphones offer opportunities to view stories in digital format, young readers are faced with new challenges in the reading task. The authors conducted an exploratory study of digital story applications on a mobile reading device and found that digital story applications are capable of taking large departures from paper‐based text in both features and conventions, and moreover, that these differences are currently presented to readers in multiple, sometimes unpredictable ways. We propose that the existence of this variability itself is a key concept that young readers of digital texts must acquire, and suggest several practical strategies for use in the classroom to foster this understanding.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1002/trtr.1259