Really Great Reading's InferCabulary In Forbes
A New Way To Teach Vocabulary: Getting Kids To Infer Meaning From Pictures
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."
