1. Strategies that Work Visualising
Workshop 7
Debbie Draper, Julie Fullgrabe & Sue Eden

2. Visualisation overview
Visualisation strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts

3. Has visualising been taken into the hands of the media and away from imaginations?

4. Were children better visualisers before visual texts became so accessible?

5. Mu dictionary

6. Quadrant A Analyse
When we visualise, we are in fact inferring, but with mental images rather than words and thoughts. (Harvey and Goudvis)

7. Quadrant A Analyse Visualisation can Help me predict
Clarify something in a text
help see the characters
help see the events, setting
Go beyond seeing to smell, taste, hearing, feeling
elicit emotional and physical reactions
Help me to remember

8. Quadrant A Analyse Visualisation is important in our lives,
Helpful for athletes, actors, musicians and teachers!
Useful for setting goals and achieving tasks

9. Quadrant D Synthesise Visualising is like….
Use the cards to make an analogy about visualising

10. Quadrant C Personalise meaning
Visualising
Listen to the excerpt and imagine the person in the story 10

11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory images11

12. Quadrant C Personalise meaning
Was it possible to develop your own images after the many versions of this character?
And how important is it that students learn that it is OK to have their own versions of a character or setting?

13. quadrant B-organise Fiction/Nonfiction can be used for visualising
Think alouds
Illustrating with drawing
Illustrating with text description
Focusing on all senses
Using imagery
Character descriptions
Understanding that visualising is an individual organise
Double entry diary

14. A summary of the main uses for visualising, available on website

15. Comprehension shouldn’t be silent
quadrant B-organise
Full of ideas
Great starting point
Comprehension shouldn’t be silent
Michelle J Kelley
Nicki Clausen-Grace
website

16. Draw a picture of your favourite part of the story…..
Discuss whether this is a good way to monitor visualisations of readers
What if drawing is challenging for learners?

17. RIDER Read – read a sentence, paragraph, paragraphs
Imagine – imagine the picture/draw the picture
Describe – describe what your picture looks like
Evaluate – evaluate/check your picture matches the story
Read on – continue reading

18. Try this activity with an excerpt from Charlotte’s Web E.B White

19. Sketch to stretch
A technique that can be used while reading aloud or used when a text has no visual images.
Take some words that have helped describe the sketch to fully explain the visualisation

22. Sketch to Stretch While you are reading, or just after you finish,
sketch what you are visualising, then, in the stretch boxes,
add to the sketches in words. You might choose to add emotions, feelings, descriptions or other information that adds to your sketch.
Kerry Gehling from AUSSIE Interactive

23. Creating mental images that go beyond visualising
Remembering a past experience using all senses on a concept map is a way of demonstrating visualising or using a piece of text

25. Visualising all aspects of a character

26. Before , during and after reading visualisations

27. Double-entry diary What I visualised
How does this visualisation help me understand the text better?

28. Use poetry to encourage visualisation of imagery
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.“
From the Fog by Carl Sandburg  

29. What kind of little cat feet did you visualise?

30. The fog is compared to a cat
Skulking and silent but a presence all the same
The fog comes on little cat feet