Yuill & Martin on dyadic synchronal posturing

Posted September 2nd, 2021.
Cataloged under Shared reading and Children

[...] when a mother read from paper, she often held the book between herself and the child, with the child very close to her, either tucked under her arm to facilitate visual sharing or in a very relaxed posture with audio sharing, but little sight of the book.

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Yuill & Martin on children in ‘head-down’ position

Posted September 2nd, 2021. (Permalink)
Cataloged under Children, Shared reading, Children’s media and Parents

When children read from a screen, they tended to hold the tablet in a ‘head-down’ posture typical of solo uses [...] leading [the mothers] to curl round behind the child in order to ‘shoulder-surf’ the screen, rather than adopting the ‘curled-up’ position common when reading the paper book.