“…Indeed, children's recall of aurally presented prose passages is enhanced by the simultaneous presentation of pictures, which are most eVective when they overlap with the story content but are nonredundant (Holmes, 1987;Lesgold, Levin, Shimron, & Guttman, 1975;Small, Lovett, & Sher, 1993). Moreover, the boost to recall is over and above the impact of simply presenting the verbal material twice (Levin, Bender, & Lesgold, 1976).…”