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How To Build A Personal Picture Dictionary For MLs

July 21, 2025 aworldoflanguagelearners Comments 0 Comment

A personal picture dictionary is a helpful tool to build your students’ vocabulary. Newcomer ESL students and Multilingual Learners (MLs) benefit from seeing pictures as they learn new vocabulary words. Beginning readers also benefit from using a picture dictionary to help with spelling. When you create your own picture dictionary for students to use, this gives you the flexibility to introduce the vocabulary or phonics words before adding them to the dictionary. Add in content vocabulary that goes along with…

Using a Picture Dictionary with MLs

January 8, 2023 aworldoflanguagelearners Comments 0 Comment

A picture dictionary is a helpful tool for your ESL students. Multilingual Learners benefit from seeing pictures as they learn new vocabulary words. Pictures are also beneficial for beginning readers so that they can confirm that the words that they read are accurate. A picture dictionary is a helpful tool for both phonics and vocabulary instruction. Picture Dictionary Organization There are multiple ways that a picture dictionary can be organized. Alphabetically- There are many picture dictionaries available that categorize words…