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E-books are becoming a more popular choice among kids, but is high-tech as good as print for the youngest readers? Find out how they stack up. By Jenny Deam
Oct 30, 2019 · The most important thing isn’t really what kind of book you read to your child, it’s that you read to your child. Whether it’s print or electronic, here are some ways to engage your child and get the most out of the experience: Don’t just read the words.
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Books help kids develop basic language skills and profoundly expand their vocabularies—much more than any other media. Books are interactive; they demand that kids think. Fiction and nonfiction books widen our consciousness.
- Studies Find Pros and Cons
- Adult–Child Interactions Around E-Books
- Interactions Around Educational E-Books
- Interactions Around E-Books and Print Books
- E-Book Features That Promote Learning
- Interactive Elements and Literacy: Closing Thoughts
Findings like this may lead many early educators to avoid children’s e-books altogether. But, as we discovered in writing Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens(2015), these findings don’t tell the whole story. Not all of Bus’s findings have been negative, and over the past decade, research from many quarters of the globe—the Nethe...
One overarching message from the science of early learning is that children thrive when adults in their lives have conversations with them. Children’s books are wonderful conversation starters, and study after study has shown how much kids gain from the back-and-forth interactions elicited by turning the pages of a book. Now that e-books are part o...
Led by Ofra Korat and Tal Or at Bar-Ilan University, the studies in Israel compared how different types of e-books might cause parents to interact differently when reading them with their children. In one experiment, Korat and Or used Just Grandma and Me, by the internationally popular author Mercer Mayer (1994). They labeled that as the commercial...
At around the same time, Korat and other Israeli scholars were also trying to answer another nagging question: How do adult–child interactions around educational e-books compare to these interactions around the same book in print? In a study conducted with some of the same content (the tractor book, for example), they found evidence that the educat...
If e-books designed to be educational can have this kind of impact, that begs the question, What exactly does good educational design look like? Researchers and child-development-savvy developers are starting to find out. The tractor book, for example, included features such as text highlighting and definitions for difficult words. What was it abou...
These kinds of features—text highlighting and audio narration—were not the digital features that led to the worries of Adriana Bus as she observed children using e-books 15 years ago. In that case, it appears to have been the presence of games, puzzles, and other interactive elements tangential to the story line that led children astray. Studies ar...
Jul 28, 2021 · 1) They don’t take up space. 2) Cheaper alternative to physical books. You may also like: Remarkable Benefits of Taking Children to the Library. 3) You don’t have to leave your house to buy an e-book. 4) E-books have interactive tools. 5) They can improve your child’s literacy skills. Disadvantages of E-Books.
Oct 21, 2015 · Children from low SES backgrounds and/or from immigrant, bilingual families benefited most from the multimedia features of technology-enhanced storybooks, likely because the additional...
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Jan 14, 2015 · Jan 14, 2015. A recent US survey commissioned by the children’s books publisher Scholastic found that 65% of 6-11 year olds prefer to read print books even when e-books are available on tablets. In the UK, a National Literacy Survey found that children who read stories both on tablets and in print are more likely to have above-average ...
