Two sides to every story: Children learn words better from one storybook page at a time

Two experiments tested how the number of illustrations in storybooks influences 3.5‐year‐old children's word learning from shared reading. In Experiment 1, children encountered stories with two regular‐sized A4 illustrations, one regular‐sized A4 illustration, or one large‐sized A3 illustration (in the control group) per spread. Children learned significantly fewer words when they had to find the referent within two illustrations presented at...