1. Visualization: A Reading Comprehension Strategy By: Carolyn Wilhelm A lesson in 3 parts: 1) visualize with simple text without details 2) visualize with text with little detail and one picture 3) visualize with text with vivid vocabulary and many pictures All PDF 16 Printable Pages Click on page to open and print when in normal mode, not slide show mode. Licensed Graphics: Permission granted to classroom teachers to adapt as needed for their own classrooms. See the Wise Owl Disclaimer and copyright information.

2. Wayzata benchmark objectives being developed with this lesson include: *Create mental pictures based on the text *recall facts and details from the text *use prior knowledge, personal connections, and experiences to comprehend the test *actively listen and respond to questions When readers learn to visualize while reading they are using the words they hear or read in a text to create visual images or "movies in their minds" (Harvey & Goudvis, p. 11). Students should try to turn on their brain just as they would turn on a TV to see images. Students should use all their senses to create mental images. Minnesota Standards (Language Arts) I.READING AND LITERATURE C. Comprehension The student will actively engage in the reading process and use a variety of comprehension strategies to understand the meaning of texts that have been read or listened to. 8. Write or draw a response that shows comprehension of a story that has been read. D. Literature 6. Understand the role of illustrations in conveying meaning in picture books. Using visualization as a reading comprehension strategy to begin to develop one's own voice in writing. Teacher Information Page

3. This is the sentence to visualize: He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. What picture forms in your mind? Any of the following slides? Part 1: Using text without details to visualize a story. Please draw your ideas before you watch the following slides. Drawing page for part 1 Visualizing page for part 1 Generic visualizing with text only page

5. He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. Is this the picture you saw in your mind?

6. He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. Is this the picture you saw in your mind?

7. He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. Is this the picture you saw in your mind?

8. He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. Is this the picture you saw in your mind?

9. He was tired after being gone all day and finally arrived home. Is this the picture you saw in your mind?

10. Part 1: Using text without details to visualize a story. W hat do you think about how a simple text, without details, helps the reader visualize what he or she is reading? Move the star to your answer: Did it help you feel the weather in the story? Did it help you think of what you might hear or smell if you were there? Did it help you use all your senses to understand the story? Yes, it is very helpful. No, it doesn't help that much. I hope not! That sentence wasn't very descriptive.

11. It was a beautiful, clear night and it was wonderful to look at the sky. Part 2: Using text with details to visualize a story with only one picture. See next slide...

12. It was a beautiful, clear night and it was wonderful to look at the sky. Is that the picture you had in your mind when you heard that sentence?

13. It was a beautiful, clear night and it was wonderful to look at the sky. Was that the only picture you and the students in our class saw in their mind? What if you could only see that one picture every time you thought about a starry night? Is that the only picture you would ever want to see in your mind? Move the star to your answer: yes, and explain why no, and explain why Did it help you feel the weather in the story? Did it help you think of what you might hear or smell if you were there? Did it help you use all your senses to understand the story? Visualize with this sentence pageGeneric visualizing page Not if you just used the sentence and picture!

14. It was a beautiful, clear night and it was wonderful to look at the sky. Could this also be one picture of that sentence?

15. It was a beautiful, clear night and it was wonderful to look at the sky. Could this picture also match the sentence? Yes

16. Could there have been many more "right answer" pictures? Of course! Millions! You bet!

17. We all form different visual images in our mind, and when we write or draw, we tell different stories. This are your writer's and artist's voices.

18. PART 3: Using many pictures and more vivid vocabulary to visualize a sentence or story.

19. The mountain pass was long and dangerous, but breathtaking and exciting. What picture forms in your mind from this sentence: The mountain pass was long and dangerous, but breathtaking and exciting.

20. Did you get a picture like this in your mind? The mountain pass was long and dangerous, but breathtaking and exciting.

21. Did you get a picture like this in your mind? The mountain pass was long and dangerous, but breathtaking and exciting.

22. Which of these two pictures do you think better illustrates the sentence? The mountain pass was long and dangerous, but breathtaking and exciting.

23. Did the various pictures and interpretations of the mountain pass by different artists help you understand the sentence better? Does having several pictures help you to better understand the sentence? Move the star to your answer: yes, and explain why no, and explain why Did it help you feel the weather in the story? Did it help you think of what you might hear or smell if you were there? Did it help you use all your senses to understand the story? Visualization page for the mountain sentence. Generic visualization page with descriptive text and several pictures It was better!

24. Now it is your turn to: 1. Find a story that helps you visualize what you are reading, and fill in a visualizing work page. Write a story that helps others visualize what you really mean in your story. 1. pre-writing story planning page (visualization) 3. story writing paper with just lines for writing 2. story writing paper with space for drawing Visualization rubric for writing

26. Attachments visualizationinfo.pdf Visualizing with just text.pdf Visualizing with just text he was tired and went home.pdf plain drawing page he was tired.pdf Visualizing with one picture and text.pdf Visualizing with one picture and text beautiful night.pdf Visualizing with several pictures and text.pdf Visualizing mountains with several pictures and text.pdf Visualizing POST Rubric.pdf Writing Paper with space for art.pdf writing paper.pdf Visualizing story pre-writing planning page.pdf Visualizing with several pictures and text mountain pass sentence.pdf