Pedro Ribeiro
Cristina Sylla
ABSTRACT
The Reader's Theatre (RT) is a pedagogical activity, in which the children read aloud to an audience. Prior research established that the RT can be used to foster reading fluency and ultimately to increase reading skills [11]. However, this activity still has the margin to grow its potential. One way to support and empower children in this pedagogical activity is by allowing them to collaboratively define digital media effects that can be triggered when the reading activity takes place. In this paper, we describe STREEN (Story Reading
Environmental Enrichment), an immersive multimodal learning environment, which was inspired in the classical Reader's Theatre. STREEN is being directed towards primary school children and follows a Design-Based Research approach. Following the description of the system, we share findings gathered in the co-design sessions with children and discuss the obtained design insights.
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