Reading storybooks to kindergartners helps them learn new vocabulary words.

摘要: In sessions conducted individually, kindergartners who were nonreaders listened to an adult read the same storybook twice, 24 days apart, and then completed a posttest measuring their knowledge of meanings 22 unfamiliar words, half which had appeared in story. Some target words occurred twice story some only once, so children heard four times twice. Children recognized significantly more from than not story, thus indicating that reading was effective for building vocabulary. Gains greater among with larger entering vocabularies. Four exposures be necessary but sufficient higher rates word learning