Selection 1: Over The edge Reading Strategies
Visualizing Using your words on the page to create a picture in your mind while reading Authors use descriptive words to create visuals
Making connections While you read, you make links from the text to what you already know. Making connections help you understand and respond to the text
Different connections Text to self Text to text Test to world Disconnect Facts in the text may conflict with what you already know
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Task 1: Visualization Worksheet
Task 2: Paragraph Assignment How does the use of descriptive words help you visualize while reading over the edge? Key words in the question: Descriptive words Visualize So, the question is asking you to identify descriptive words and explain how those words help create a picture in your mind.