Visualization mini lesson11/30/2023 ![]() Have students share their drawings with a partner. Be sure to showcase all 5 senses when describing your mental picture.Īs students become familiarized with this strategy, invite them to create their own images using all 5 senses during a read-aloud. Again, these images can be drawn in real time with students or prepared ahead of time to share with the students as you get to that part in the story. You can also draw your mental images on post-it notes and place them on the actual page in the story that sparked the mental image. You may want to have a whiteboard or chart paper available to actually draw, or have the drawings prepared ahead of time, to show your students when explaining your mental images. ![]() Choose a text to share and be sure to pre-read that book and prepare for places that you will stop to model the mental images that you are creating. Teaching reading strategies usually starts with modeling through a read-aloud. << Back to categories Modeling how to Visualize Each reader may create unique images, as prior knowledge will differ between each reader. When readers visualize as they read, they rely on information from the text as well as their own prior knowledge to create mental images of what is happening in the story. One of the best things about the visualizing strategy is that there is really no right or wrong answer. If that character is eating their favorite food, we want students to imagine what that food smells and tastes like, too. For example, we don’t want students to just picture what a character looks like, but also what they sound like. Visualizing isn’t something that readers should be doing periodically, it’s something that should be ongoing for the entire length of the story.Īlthough the strategy is called “visualizing,” we should also encourage students to use all 5 of their senses, when appropriate, to really get the best mental image. In nonfiction texts, we want our readers to visualize the details about the topic, or the event in history in order to fully grasp the concept. In doing so, readers will have a better understanding of the story as a whole. In fictional texts, readers should visualize the settings, characters, and even the actions of those characters. ![]() We want students to constantly be adding to, changing, tweaking, and revising their mental images just like a movie is constantly evolving. One of the most common ways to teach students visualizing is to describe it as creating a picture or movie in our mind. << Back to categories what you need to know before teaching The Visualizing Reading Strategy:
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