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Really Great Reading's InferCabulary In Forbes
A New Way To Teach Vocabulary: Getting Kids To Infer Meaning From Pictures
By Natalie Wexler
Natalie Wexler, author of "The Knowledge Gap,” weighs in on why "Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to teach—especially if the words are abstract." She introduces "A promising new approach using pictures that prompt students to infer a word’s meaning."
"Vocabulary is crucial to reading comprehension, but it can be hard to teach—especially if the words are abstract. A promising new approach uses pictures that prompt students to infer a word’s meaning, ...asking students to figure out the definition of a word themselves, based on a carefully curated set of images [as presented by InferCabulary], can be more powerful than just giving them the definition."
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InferCabulary is a Promising New Approach to Teach Vocabulary Instruction
InferCabulary is a revolutionary, research-aligned, interactive, web-based, visual vocabulary and critical thinking program that meets ESSA-2 efficacy.
Did you know, that reading comprehension is dependent on knowing the meaning of 98% of the words in the text. Low vocabulary plays a huge role in poor reading comprehension in grades 2-12. Avid readers “stumble upon” words in books over and over again until deeply understanding the many contexts of those words; however, this process can take years.
