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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Good readers have a variety of tools, and pictures can be one of them.[/quote] Pictures are never a good tool for decoding a word, i.e. reading it. If you are talking about determining the meaning of a word that the reader has already decoded, then pictures and context clues can be legitimate tools. For example, if the sentence "Joe showed Bob the scales," is presented in isolation, a picture can help the reader determine the meaning of the word "scales." If the picture shows Joe playing a piano, then the sentence is talking about musical scales. If the picture shows Joe holding devices used for weighing, then the sentence is talking about the other kind of scales. That's fine. But if the reader is stumbling over the word "scales" in the first place, using a picture to determine that the word is "scales" and not "seals" or "sacks" or "slack," is counterproductive and is not reading. [/quote]
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