 |
Books
may be adapted to the needs of particular students by adding
pictures in connection with particular words on the page.
This approach has been shown to strengthen the association
of text with vocabulary and also assists readers who are
struggling to comprehend what is written. This strategy
is useful for individuals who cannot decode words due to
a learning disability. In books where picture symbols are
paired with words, the word-pictures draw attention to
key concepts in the text and help develop early vocabulary.
Seeing words illustrated makes text more meaningful and
easier to remember.
Commonly
used picture symbol software that provide their own picture/symbol
sets include:
There
are also sources of free symbols such as Symbol World (http://www.symbolworld.org),
but these would need to be individually selected and pasted
into text. |
