PledgeCents and InferCabulary Partner to Improve the Way Students Learn Vocabulary

    PHILADELPHIA, PA, March 10, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Illiteracy continues to be a widespread problem across the United States with over 32 million American adults unable to read according to a 2013 study by U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy. While numerous organization are working to prevent this continued trend at the school level, school funding is often an obstacle that stands in the way of getting these tools into teachers and students hands. PledgeCents, Inc., the fundraising site which helps to bring resources and opportunities to classrooms across the country by alleviating funding needs, is taking steps to reduce this problem through its partner program, in which schools can purchase their favorite education products directly through its PledgeCents Marketplace. With the addition of InferCabulary, teachers and schools now have the ability to easily purchase an InferCabulary Pro (IC Pro) license to improve vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension levels through their web-based vocabulary program.

"By using far more than just words to teach vocabulary, InferCabulary has figured out a winning formula to improve the retention of vocabulary," said Andyshea Saberioon, co-founder of PledgeCents. "We often hear from teachers who are looking for ways to keep their students' engaged in vocabulary. With this partnership, we will be able to work with the InferCabulary team to get their vocabulary tool in the hands of all the teachers who have been looking for help!"

Through the partnership, teachers and schools will be able to utilize PledgeCents to seamlessly generate a fundraising page to cover the cost of InferCabulary Pro for their students. The PledgeCents team works with each fundraiser to help raise the necessary funds and will purchase the products needed immediately after the fundraiser ends to expedite the process. Anyone interested can visit http://www.pledgecents.com/signup/event/infercabulary to create their own page today.

"By partnering with PledgeCents, we anticipate expanding the availability of InferCabulary into every classroom that needs it--which is every classroom!" explained Beth Lawrence, CEO of Communication APPtitude. "This timely, unique fundraising platform is a perfect response to the increased desire in the community to support education, teachers and children. PlegeCents provides teachers with the power to fund programs they know their students need, when financial resources are hard to come by. We are so pleased to partner with them."

InferCabulary Pro is an interactive, fun, visual, research-based and research-backed vocabulary tool teachers can use in class, and assign to students for homework. IC Pro is more than just a vocabulary app, it's a great tool that helps students use critical thinking to learn the nuanced meanings of words broadly and deeply with 1,800 words (and growing). ELA, ELL or Special Ed teachers can create individualized learning by hand-selecting words based on grade level, literature, or their own vocabulary lists, and track data to monitor a student's progress.

Representatives from organizations interested in learning more about the program can contact [email protected] for more information.

About PledgeCents, Inc.

PledgeCents is the preferred fundraising platform for all PreK-12 needs. By allowing anyone to raise funds, PledgeCents aims to eliminate the $1.6 billion teachers annually spend out-of-pocket for basic classroom needs. Over 1,800 schools representing over 250 public school districts in 50 states work to raise funds through the PledgeCents platform. With the addition of the newly launched Preferred Partner Program, PledgeCents has partnered with over 40 leading education technology companies to help schools and teachers receive access to the tools they need but cannot afford. For more information please visit: http://www.pledgecents.com or email [email protected] with any questions.

About InferCabulary

Beth Lawrence and Deena Seifert, both speech-language pathologists with 40+ years of combined experience as language experts, are co-creators of InferCabulary. They are authors of a norm-referenced vocabulary assessment tool, and speak nationally on vocabulary instruction methods. If InferCabulary Pro had been available for purchase, they would have bought it for their students. Instead, they got to create it from the ground up, collaborating all the way with prominent academic researchers, teachers, students, speech-language pathologists, and parents.

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