Visualization

What Happens When…… You listen to a song on your iPod or MP3 player? You listen to a song on your iPod or MP3 player?

Do You………. Sing along? Sing along? Dance? Dance? Create a motion picture in your head about the song? Create a motion picture in your head about the song?

If You Can create that motion picture while listening to the radio, you can do it while reading create that motion picture while listening to the radio, you can do it while reading

As You …… Listen to music Read over a poem, novel or pause over a newspaper story, a picture forms in your mind. Certain smells, tastes, sights, and feelings emerge, depending on what you’re reading and what life experiences you have had. Information comes to you through your senses. This triggers a wide range of memories and feelings It allows you to relate to what you are reading.

Now……….. Imagine this background with a red line running through it.

What might you see ?

OR

Picturing in your mind what you might see, hear, taste, smell or feel is called visualizing.

Certain visual words help us See, hear, taste, feel, smell what we read See, hear, taste, feel, smell what we read

SightSmellTouchTasteSounds RedFragrantCoolSmokeyBang BentStrongFuzzyBitterBark CrinkledRottenSoftCreamyBoom BlushingSweetStickyJuicyCrash ColourfulPutridWoodenSpicyCrunching

When we visualize we: Create pictures in our minds that Create pictures in our minds that belong to us and no one else. Create our own movies in our minds. Create our own movies in our minds. Personalize our reading so we keep Personalize our reading so we keep wanting to continue.

If you can imagine the information while you are reading, then it is easier to remember the material. If you can imagine the information while you are reading, then it is easier to remember the material. It is like the TV being on in your head. It is like the TV being on in your head.

Homework ‘The Nine Lives of Travis Keating’ Read the excerpt from ‘The Nine Lives of Travis Keating’ by Jill MacLean provided by the teacher Underline or highlight the visual words Choose one or more sentences and draw and colour the picture that you see in your head.

Visualization Examples PART TWO

Close Your Eyes and Turn on that TV in Your Head "There is wind here," said Caleb happily. "It blows the snow and brings tumbleweeds and makes the sheep run. Wind and wind and wind!" Caleb stood up and ran like the wind, and the sheep ran after him. Sarah and I watched him jump over rock and gullies, the sheep behind him, stiff legged and fast. He circled the field, the sun making the top of his hair golden. He collapsed next to Sarah, and the lambs pushed their wet noses into us. "There is wind here," said Caleb happily. "It blows the snow and brings tumbleweeds and makes the sheep run. Wind and wind and wind!" Caleb stood up and ran like the wind, and the sheep ran after him. Sarah and I watched him jump over rock and gullies, the sheep behind him, stiff legged and fast. He circled the field, the sun making the top of his hair golden. He collapsed next to Sarah, and the lambs pushed their wet noses into us. [From Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (HarperTrophy, 1987).]

What did you see? Hear? Taste? What did you see? Hear? Taste? How did it make you feel? How did it make you feel?

Imagine the feeling of suddenly having all of your weight lifted from you. You glide along almost without effort. You feel the coolness of water around you. You see the brilliant colors of the fish swimming past you, and the sounds of the world outside are muffled. These are just a few of the pleasures of scuba diving.

Is your TV on? What do you see, hear, smell, taste or feel?

Too tired to erase the tears that fall against her darkened face, she stares into open space; her eyes too sad to focus. Will the hat upon her head be the only warmth she feels?

Is your TV on? What do you see, hear, smell, taste or feel?

Blanketed by white wonder, the mountains sit beside one another as if in conversation. Though its peaks are crisp and rugged its beauty melts and smoothes.

Is your TV on? What do you see, hear, smell, taste or feel?

Mr. Sanders was a pastry chef and he didn't like his job, I'm not sure if he liked anything. He was a big man with a round, bald head and he stared at me as if he was looking right through me. His white coat was buttoned all the way up to his double chin and it came down to his knees; he wore black pants and black shiny shoes. He had been stirring that cake batter for the last half-hour.

Is your TV on? What do you see. Hear, smell or feel?

As good readers we can make the words on the paper come to life. If you visualize the text as you read it and your TV is on, then you are much more likely to remember the information.

Good Readers ….… VISUALIZE

Homework - Sketch to Stretch Picturing in your mind what you might see, hear, taste, Picturing in your mind what you might see, hear, taste, smell or feel is called visualizing. If you can imagine the information while you are reading, then it is easier to remember the material. It is like the TV being on in your head. 1. As you read today listen for a part of the text that you can clearly visualize. Use that text and draw and colour what you see in your head. Then fill in the information required. 2. Title of Book: Author: Author: Page you are using for your visualization: Page you are using for your visualization: 3. Copy the text you visualized. 4. Now go back and HIGHLIGHT or UNDERLINE the visual words.