Chapter published in:
Learning to Read in a Digital WorldEdited by Mirit Barzillai, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder and Paul van den Broek
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 17] 2018
► pp. 31–56
Chapter 2Designing digital texts for beginner readers
Performance, practice and process
Sue Walker | University of Reading
Alison Black | University of Reading
Ann Bessemans | Hasselt University
Kevin Bormans | Hasselt University
Maarten Renckens | Hasselt University
Mark Barratt | Text Matters
This chapter summarises issues that designers consider when they are producing reading materials for beginning and emerging readers, including the constraints imposed by technology. We suggest ways of engaging with users of e-books so that their needs can be considered. We conclude by summarising the typographic parameters that are likely to benefit children’s reading.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Considerations that affect designers’ decisions
- 3.Typefaces, typography and the use of space
- 3.1Typefaces
- 3.2Type size, vertical and horizontal space
- 4.Pictures and text
- 5.E-reading formats and the control offered to the designer
- 5.1Markup-based e-books: Flowed page layout
- 5.2Pictures of pages: Fixed page-layout
- 6.Finding out what works with beginner and emerging readers
- 7.Concluding remarks
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Notes -
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Published online: 09 August 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.17.02wal
https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.17.02wal
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