Starry Gaze

In a digital era where multimedia dominates learning, traditional literacy skills remain vital for academic success and personal development. While conventional reading practices support vocabulary and comprehension innovative strategies such as interactive storytelling can further strengthen these abilities, particularly among younger readers. Starry Gaze explores how an instructional storytelling book can enhance vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension by merging narrative engagement with educational design. Glossary terms, synonyms, and antonyms are embedded throughout the story to promote active language learning. Feedback from young readers evaluates engagement, comprehension, and vocabulary improvement. Findings are expected to show positive language development outcomes, supporting prior studies on how narrative-based and gamified materials improve literacy learning . This study also encourages further research into interactive book design and gamified literacy enhancement.

educational book design, interactive storytelling

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