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Generating an image while reading requires that the reader be actively engaged with the text.

Creating mental images while reading can improve comprehension.

How to use visual imagery

Follow these few simple steps to provide practice developing students' mental images:

Begin reading. Pause after a few sentences or paragraphs that contain good descriptive information.

Share the image you've created in your mind, and talk about which words from the book helped you "draw" your picture. Your picture can relate to the setting, the characters, or the actions. By doing this, you are modeling the kind of picture making you want your child to do.

Talk about how these pictures help you understand what's happening in the story.

Continue reading. Pause again and share the new image you created. Then ask your child to share what he sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels. Ask what words helped him create the mental image and emotions. By doing this, you are providing your child with practice with this new skill.

Are your images identical? Probably not! This is a great time to talk about why your images might be different. Perhaps your child went on a school field trip or had a school assembly that changed the way they created the picture in their mind. Perhaps experiences you've had as an adult influenced what you "drew." These differences are important to understand and respect.

Read a longer portion of text and continue the sharing process.

Once this is a familiar skill, encourage your child to use mental imagery when she is reading by herself. You can feel confident that these mental pictures will help your child understand the story in an important way.

Resources

Into the Book: lesson plans that help students learn to visualize:

Article from Reading Rockets:

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Good readers construct mental images as they read a text. By using prior knowledge and background experiences, readers connect the author's writing with a personal picture. Through guided visualization, students learn how to create mental pictures as they read.

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Teaching my students to conscientiously make mental images while they read is one of my favorite reading strategies to teach. It lends itself to so many FUN activities! Here are some of the things we did this week to learn how to visualize:

We learned our reading strategy song for the week:

We highlighted clues within our Green Giant poem that helped us picture what he looked like. Then, we used our clues to draw our Green Giants.

Then we read the poem, "My Neighbor's Dog is Purple" by Jack Prelutsky. You can find a copy of the poem by clicking {HERE}. I used this poem to teach my students' how mental pictures can change throughout a book. Sometimes, we see a character one way in the beginning of the book or poem, and another way at the end. I used Deanna Jump's response sheet for our lesson. You can find it by visiting her website and clicking { HERE}.

Then, it was time to put the strategy of visualizing to the test. I tied our reading strategy in with our writing this week by working on descriptive writing pieces. First, we reviewed adjectives and created this anchor chart. I told my students that adjectives make your writing "sparkly." My co-worker Rachel liked to make fun of me for that all week - using the word "sparkly," combined with my whole-brain teaching movement for adjectives, made my class look like we were putting on a Broadway show.

I was so lucky to win Hadar from Miss Kindergarten's latest giveaway. I got to choose something from her store so I picked her adorable Monster Madness Craft and Writing Templates product. My students went crazy making their monsters! They had SO much fun! I'm typically the organized-and-OCD-here is your paper-pass the template on 3-structured kind of craftivity person. But since I knew they would be describing every piece of their monster, I threw out the construction paper bucket and said GO! It was monster-madness central in my room, but they had a blast and it turned out great!

Because they were able to make their monster really look unique, they felt so much ownership to them and really did an outstanding job using adjectives to describe what their monsters looked like.

I took it one step farther and had the students hide their monsters in their desk. Then, I paired them up and gave each student a blank piece of paper. I told them to take turns reading their descriptive pieces to their partner, while their partner had to visualize and draw the mental image he or she had while they were listening. Then, they compared their mental images to the actual monsters and evaluated whether or not their writing pieces had enough adjectives for a good mental image, or if their piece needed more adjectives to fully describe the monster.

It was an awesome series of lessons that really helped my students connect their reading strategy to their writing - and vice versa. They had a blast and really understand how to visualize while they read a book or poem.

Thank you so much for visiting and taking a look at our busy week!

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Teaching my students to conscientiously make mental images while they read is one of my favorite reading strategies to teach. It lends itself to so many FUN activities! Here are some of the things we did this week to learn how to visualize: We learned our reading strategy song for the week: We highlighted clues within our [...]

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Visualizing the text is such an important strategy used for building your students' reading comprehension. It is very versatile as it can be used in different ways with students of all ages and reading levels.

I follow the 7 Keys to Comprehension (Zimmerman and Hutchins, 2003) in my classroom. Of the seven reading strategies (Visualize, Use Background Knowledge, Ask Questions, Make Inferences, Determine Importance, Synthesize Information, & Monitor Comprehension), visualizing is always the first reading strategy I teach. I feel it is the most concrete for my students to grasp.

INTRODUCE THE VISUALIZING STRATEGY:

To introduce this reading strategy to my students, I first go over a Visualizing Poster/Anchor Chart that describes what visualizing is, how good readers visualize, and gives a brief example.

Then, I use a think aloud technique where I read part of a text aloud and then stop to verbalize what the text makes me picture in my mind.In my think-aloud, I describe how the author's use of adjectives and sensory details helps bring the text alive to the reader. To practice this strategy, I first choose a book with tons of descriptive language.If it is a picture book, I do not reveal the actual illustration until the end of the lesson. I like to begin by simply having students close their eyes as I read a part of a story aloud.This is also a great way to practice listening comprehension.

I like to read the passage twice.After reading, I do one of two things:

1. Have students turn and talk to a neighbor about what they saw in their minds, along with what words from the text were helpful in allowing them to create this visualization.

2. Have students each draw their own illustration on a blank piece of paper.

I check in on students as they are finishing up their visualizations, or have them present them.This helps me learn more about how the minds of my students' work and how they are comprehending the story, or passage.I might ask them,

"What did you see in your mind, or visualize, as you read?"

"What words in the text made you visualize that?"

"Did your visualization change at all from the first to the second reading?"

ONGOING PRACTICE VISUALIZING:

I make a reusable anchor chart for visualizing as a whole class or in small group lessons. For the excerpt from the text, I use a plastic sheet protector (cut in half) where I place whatever quote/passage we are using to visualize. From that text is a giant thought bubble for students to put post-its with their visualizations.

I personally don't have students write their names on the front, although sometimes with the whole class (rather than a small group lesson) I will have them write their names on the back so I can be sure to know if anyone was way off with their visualization.

Here is a closer look at how I make the anchor chart reusable:

MORE WAYS TO PRACTICE:

Both students in a pair choose a short passage to read to their partner.While one reads, the other draws their visualization.Then, they switch.

Teacher passes out a short excerpt from a book, or a passage, to each student for them to create their own visualizations.Have students highlight words or phrases that were helpful to them in creating their image.

Students independently read texts, recording their visualizations on post-its, a reader's notebook, or in graphic organizers.

This visualizing graphic organizers can be found in the Visualizing Graphic Organizers Set. The Visualizing anchor chart at the top is from my Reading Strategies Anchor Charts and Posters. The interactive organizers right above are from the Visualizing Comprehension Crafts.

Looking for more resources for teaching Reading Strategies? Read this blog post on 5 Steps for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies!

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Visualizing the text is such an important strategy used for building your students' reading comprehension. It is very versatile as it can be used in different ways with students of all ages and reading levels. I follow the 7 Keys to Comprehension (Zimmerman and Hutchins, 2003) in my classroom.

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If you live in England, your child will learn to read using phonics. Their school is very likely to use either the Letters and Sounds phonics framework or the Read Write Inc. programme. Check with your school if you're not sure which one they use.

Using Letters and Sounds?

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