Taxonomies Support Preschoolers’ Knowledge Acquisition from Storybooks

Table 1

Descriptive statistics by condition (𝑁=60).

	Taxonomic Storybook (𝑛=29)			Traditional Storybook (𝑛=31)
	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

Note: ^∗𝑃<0.05; PPVT-III: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-III (L. Dunn and L. Dunn, 1998 [37]).