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A week in the life of an educational psychologist

Words, pictures and the truth

Apples, aubergines and sweetcorn are all fruits. Do you agree?
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Words can interest us, words can enthuse us, words can inspire us – but research now suggests that words with an associated picture have the greatest impact.

Is this because of the way we learn to read? Picture books match, for example, a drawing or photo of an apple with the word ‘apple’, a picture of a car with the word ‘car’, and so on. In this way we learn words but we learned association between words and pictures. also make a

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