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  • Educational Psychology

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  • Environmental print exposure precedes formal reading instruction and is linked to reading ability.
  • Inversion sensitivity, distinguishing upright from inverted words, is a key reading development milestone.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between attention to environmental print and early reading development.
  • To examine if children with differing reading abilities exhibit varied inversion sensitivity to environmental print words.

Main Methods:

  • Eye-tracking was used to compare attention to upright and inverted words (environmental and ordinary) in children with low and high reading levels.
  • Participants included 18 children with low reading abilities (mean age 5.06 years) and 19 with high reading abilities (mean age 5.00 years).
  • Measures included percentage of fixation duration, fixation count, and first fixation latency.

Main Results:

  • Children with high reading abilities demonstrated inversion sensitivity to environmental print words (fixation duration and count).
  • Children with low reading abilities did not show inversion sensitivity to environmental print words.
  • Unexpectedly, low reading ability children showed inversion sensitivity to ordinary words (first fixation latency), while high reading ability children did not.

Conclusions:

  • Inversion sensitivity to words in environmental print is strongly associated with early reading ability.
  • Visual attention patterns to environmental print may differentiate reading skill levels in young children.
  • Further research is needed to understand the dissociation observed in inversion sensitivity to ordinary words.