90 children aged 5-6 without AR picture book reading experience from L kindergarten in S city were selected as the research subjects,and they were divided into the experimental group with AR picture books and the control group with paper picture books.Taking AR picture books and paper picture books as research tools and using random sampling method for data collection,this research investigated whether there was any difference in the effect of reading AR picture books and paper picture books between 5-6 years old children from the perspectives of reading quality and reading comprehension level.The results showed that in terms of reading quality,AR picture books helped improve the reading quality of 5-6years old children.In terms of reading comprehension,AR picture books had a positive effect on young children's story retelling ability;at the level of story content comprehension,there was no significant difference between AR picture books and paper picture books in terms of the level of comprehension of explicit questions,but the two showed significant differences in terms of implicit questions involving deeper levels of understanding.These differences were mainly in children's understanding of character mood,cause and effect,and story theme,while the two did not show differences in plot reasoning.
children aged 5-6AR picture bookspaper picture booksreading effect