Research Article
Taxonomies Support Preschoolers’ Knowledge Acquisition from Storybooks
Table 1
Descriptive statistics by condition (
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| | Taxonomic Storybook () | Traditional Storybook () | | M | SD | Range | M | SD | Range |
| Target vocabulary* | 0.33 | 0.24 | 0–0.75 | 0.19 | 0.22 | 0–0.75 | Literal comprehension* | 0.63 | 0.25 | 0–1.00 | 0.49 | 0.28 | 0–1.00 | Inferential comprehension | 0.42 | 0.22 | 0.20–0.80 | 0.43 | 0.28 | 0–1.00 | PPVT-III | 95.00 | 14.14 | 67.00–128.00 | 100.42 | 13.81 | 63.00–123.00 |
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Note: ; PPVT-III: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III (L. Dunn and L. Dunn, 1998 [37]).
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