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Representing Vocabulary

Myth: Pictures are Easy | Evaluating Pictures | Selecting Symbols | Lesson-Specific Vocabulary | Story Vocabulary | Activity-Based Vocabulary | Theme-Based Vocabulary

Myth: Pictures are easy!

This is a common misperception among professionals and parents. Let's take the following quiz and see if you still think pictures are easy.

Pictures are Easy Quiz

Given that students using picture communication boards have limited reading skills, this is how the board might appear to them.

Can you identify the exact message that each of these symbols is intended to convey?

 

 


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How did you do?

It is our belief that pictures look "easy" to us because we attending to the words and reading the message rather than examining the pictures and inferring their communicative intent.


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