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Ratio: Text vs Pictures In Storybooks

Picture overload hinders children's word learning from storybooks. While publishers look to produce ever more colourful and exciting texts to entice buyers, University of Sussex psychologists have shown that having more than one illustration per page results in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers. Source 4j.

Storybooks Pictures Text Ratio

I can see how too many pictures take away from the words or even the learning of new words but let me tell you, as a kid if there were no pictures I wouldn't be reading it!

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When I was in the final year of primary school, I saw this first hand. As part of peer support I was in a group assisting kindergarteners with learning to read. The boy I was assigned had remembered the story purely though the pictures and recited it by sight. Perhaps he was a visual learner or more artistic, but there is nobody who wouldn't benefit from literacy. In my opinion, the earlier, the better.

Storybooks Pictures Text Ratio

Books without pictures are boring. Even if the book is really good its nice to see some artwork every now and again. People may disagree but the art kind of ensures that what I'm imagining from reading is along the same lines of what the author is saying.

Storybooks Pictures Text Ratio

I like the occasional map but as far as pictures go I'm not big on them. That said, everybody to their own. But for children, I think pictures are a huge advantage, as they can relate the words to the pictures.

Ratio: Text vs Pictures In Storybooks

Yes having some pictures as one is developing to read can help a person learn to read better. After the picture and word association is mastered go to a picture with a sentence under it. Like the Dick and Jane books. This helps them learn more words and you can keep working up to a story with some pictures until you have few if any pictures in a book.

Ratio Text Pictures Storybooks

Yes, exactly the strategy needed to help children learn to read. I started my girl with a book that had a picture and a single word under it, dog with a picture of a dog, fish with picture of a fish. That helped her relate what the written word was and then what sounds the letter were. Then we moved on to short sentences, etc. The key was the pictures.

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Any time you associate words with pictures it can help you read more and more as time goes on and you graduate from the single word to a picture on up to many chapters with no photos.