An article from the Daily Mail this week highlights a new study from the Max Planck Child Study Centre at Manchester University. The study found reading a picture book with one or two words per page to be just as beneficial for a pre-school child as reading one with long sentences.
From the article: “The key to success is as much talking about what happens in the book as reading the text. Simple text tends to stimulate complex discussions between adult and child, whereas complicated sentences reduce the need for dialogue, the study concluded.”