Visualize

Literacy Stations: Listening Leads to Visualization
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

When targeting visualization, have students show you their thinking by drawing their mental pictures. After teaching and modeling the skill, then guide students through it in small groups, and then let them practice visualization within a listening station. [read more...]

Visualize the Intended Meaning of Figurative Language
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Kate Bieker, 6th grade language arts teacher at Willowcreek Middle School (Portage, IN), shared a great way to help students grasp the meaning of metaphors. She uses music lyrics to teach figurative language. Students can usually interpret similes, but often misunderstand metaphors. [read more...]

Develop Visualization Skills with Sound Effects
Thursday, April 28th, 2011

When we ask students to visualize while they're reading, most think in terms of sights and things we can literally see in our mind's eye. However, we need to teach students that visualization goes beyond the sense of sight and includes all five senses. [read more...]

More Than Happy, Sad, Mad
Friday, April 16th, 2010

Inferencing a character’s feelings or personality traits is complicated. It involves looking beyond the words. It takes time to build this skill in young readers. Making it tangible can help. One way to make it more concrete is to put a face to it. Here are three activities, all of which will [read more...]

Using Audio Books to Reinforce Visualization
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Set up a learning center that includes a book in print form and the same book in audio form. As students cycle through the station, have them first listen to the book without looking at the printed version. The emphasis during this reading is on creating a mental image of what’s occurring [read more...]

Visualizing While Reading with Mind Movies
Friday, December 12th, 2008

One way to get students to "think" while reading (or "think" while being read to) is to have them visualize. If they can see what's happening, they are more apt to comprehend and remember. Here is a simple lesson for teaching visualization. [read more...]