Frequently Asked Questions

A license to The Visual Non-Glossary grants access to all of the visuals, questions, sentence stems, word walls, and lesson plans in any one content area for one calendar year. This includes:

All content is available in English and Spanish.

Yes! You can sign up for a free trial here.

A license grants teachers access to all grade levels within a subject area. So, a 6th-Grade Science teacher with a Science license can access 6th-Grade Science content, or Kindergarten or Physics content, or anything in between. To give a teacher access to multiple content areas (Science, Social Studies, and Math), multiple licenses must be purchased.

If you have an active license to one of the VNG subject areas, you can share those visuals with your students in any way: printed out, projected, uploaded to a learning management system such as Google Classroom, or any other way you can imagine! We recommend using the slide decks because they help structure small group conversations around the visuals.

Does your district have a district license to the VNG? If so, you can embed the visuals within curriculum documents!

Yes. You can do it directly on your account page.

If you purchase electronically from your profile page, then yes. If you send in a purchase order, please allow up to 2 business days to be granted access. Once granted access, you'll receive an activation email (which may go to your SPAM folder).

In short, only if those other colleagues have a license themselves. In legalese: by purchasing this product, you agree that (1) you may use this digital product for your own use as an educator with your students and (2) you may not republish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, display, or distribute to friends, colleagues, or any other third party. Any unauthorized use of the materials will constitute infringement of our rights.

The visuals for each word are in PNG format. A version of each visual that includes questions and sentence stems is also available in PNG format. The lesson plans, which include visuals, questions, sentence stems, and other content, are available as PowerPoint files (PPTX). The downloads are individual, however, all word wall visuals for a single grade level can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Yes! See the grey boxes at the top of this page.

Yes! Also, visuals will be improved throughout the school year based on teacher feedback. So please submit any feedback directly on this website or by emailing Stephen with any feedback on visuals or requests for more visuals.

Any visuals from The Visual Non-Glossary may not be distributed for any commercial reason. However, any developed activities or products may refer users to The Visual Non-Glossary’s website, http://thevisualnonglossary.com.

Yes! The trainers at Seidlitz Education are renowned for delivering engaging, transformative professional development. They will walk teachers through how to use the product, including how to plan lessons using the product and how to structure conversations in the lessons, and how to modify the product for each teacher’s needs. This interactive, highly engaging PD is available in 60-minute or longer (even half- or full-day) sessions.

Yes. As long as that teacher’s access was purchased by the campus/district, then the district administrator can make the change from their profile page. Alternatively, the administrator can email Lindsey with the request and she will make the change. If the teacher individually purchased the access for themselves, only they will be able to make changes to access.

Access expires exactly one calendar year after purchase.

Each year a new edition of The Visual Non-Glossary is uploaded to our servers, featuring new words, enhanced visuals, and other features in response to teacher feedback from the previous edition. So renewal of licenses grants you access to more, better content.

The Visual Non-Glossary features structured visuals, which are next to impossible to find on image search websites. That’s because The Visual Non-Glossary’s visuals are expertly designed to help students build meaning of words. Furthermore, the questions and sentence stems in The Visual Non-Glossary help students navigate the visuals while having structured conversations. And the lesson plans make prepping high-quality, student-centered lessons super easy.

On this website you will find free sample visuals, discussion questions (with sentence stems), and lesson plans. You can also find free resources and instructional strategies. Lastly, the word lists and alignment of words to standards (TEKS and NGSS) can be found on this website for free, without logging in.

Yes.