Literacy Coach's Corner
Visualizing
Visualizing
Visualizing can bring joy to reading! We can help train our readers to create pictures in their minds as they read or listen to a read aloud. You can tell them to "make a movie in your mind". Encourage your children to draw a picture of what they were picturing in their mind. Have them explain their pictures to you.
Good readers...
listen to the words and create pictures in their mind to go with the words.
Give your children "thinking stems" to help them explain their thinking...
- I'm picturing....
- I can imagine....
- I can see, smell, hear, taste, touch....
- When I read, I visualized....
Visualize to Focus
Jennifer Serravallo presents the skill of visualizing and focusing with the strategy of creating a picture in your mind. This picture shifts and changes and that is essential to staying focused. Encourage your children to
- describe the picture they see in their head
- describe how their picture is changing
- make the picture move
- what do you see? Hear? Taste? Smell?
- That's what the text says, what are you picturing?
Texts
Click here to read the titles of great texts to use to support Visualizing. https://thisreadingmama.com/texts-making-mental-images/
Click here to hear the Visualize Song! https://youtu.be/_k7CaB2P290
And...we can't forget about the adults!
Visualizing can be used to relieve stress! Check this out https://youtu.be/BPg18yqCiXw
Jessica Warner
Email: jwarner@somervilleschools.org
Location: 51 Union Avenue, Somerville, NJ, USA
Phone: (908)218-4105
Twitter: @VDVReading