CCP: Episode 47 // Reading Comprehension Strategies: How to Teach Visualizing
As adults, it’s hard to imagine NOT visualizing while reading.
Visualizing is what makes the characters, settings, and events pop off the page. Visualizing makes us want to keep reading. And - it’s visualizing that allows us to leave reality for a moment and escape into another world. When readers begin imagining the stories they read, they become part of the story.
But - for young readers, it may not be that easy. They may not have been taught to focus their mind in that way - to create that movie in their mind. That’s where clear reading comprehension strategy instruction on visualizing, or picturing as some teachers refer to it as, comes into the…well, picture (pun intended)!
If you’re looking to develop stronger readers in your classroom, then tune in to this week’s episode as we continue our podcast series on teaching reading comprehension strategies in your elementary classroom.
You’ll Learn
(Timestamps Shown)
An easy way to explain visualizing (3:12)
How mental images will be different from student to student (4:42)
Drawing helps students visualize (6:05)
How read aloud anchor texts are essential to modeling the visualizing reading strategy (7:38)
My favorite books for teaching visualizing (9:08)
A helpful (& FREE) tool for reminding students to visualize (9:29)
How to keep students accountable when reading (11:21)
An assessment tool that helps measure the progress of students’ visualizing (12:58)
My signature resource when teaching about visualizing (14:04)
LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
Episode 41: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies
Episode 42: Reading Comprehension Instruction: How to Teach Making Connections
Books rich in descriptive language and detail — perfect for teaching visualizing:
A Bad Case of the Stripes by: David Shannon
Color Me a Rhyme by: Jane Yolen
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by: Judy Barrett
The Salamander Room by: Anne Mazer
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