What is visualization and just why should I teach this strategy anyway??? Visualizing is creating mental pictures in your mind as you read a story. These pictures unfold and change as you read. It personalizes reading and often prevents us from abandoning a book too soon!
Proficient readers use images to draw conclusions, to create distinct and unique interpretations of the text, to recall details significant to the text, and to recall a text after it has been read. Images from reading frequently become part of the reader's writing. Images from a reader's
personal experience frequently become part of their comprehension.
Many of our students don't come equipped with this skill so it is up to us to teach them to "see" as they read or listen to a story. There are several strategy lessons in chapter nine of the Strategies That Work book. One of my favorite ways is to read aloud to the class. Model drawing what you "see" in your mind. Give them a piece of paper and have them draw what they "see" in their mind as you are reading. Give them time to adjust their pictures as necessary.
What are some examples of lessons you would use to teach this skill?
Until next time....
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Making Connections
Welcome back to school! Hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. Today I am going to "talk" about making connections. We can connect (and teach our kids to connect) to books in three ways:
Text to Text
Text to Self
Text to World
Text to Self:
Text-to-self connections are connections that readers make between the text and their own life experiences. Example: “This story reminds me of a visit to my grandmother’s house.”
Text to Text:
Text-to-text connections are connections that readers make to other things they have read, such as other books by the same author, or other stories related by genre or topic. Example: “This character has a similar problem to one that I read about in a story last month.”
Text to World:
Text-to-world connections are broader connections that readers make while reading. A text might remind students of something they learned through movies, television, newspapers, or magazines. Example: “I saw a movie that showed some of the ideas in this story.”
You may print out posters for these connection to post in your classroom. This is also a link to lesson plans for teaching these connections. Remember to teach your children that TEXT is not just a way to communicate with your phone. Teach them that text is words on a page.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=228
Let me know what you think! Have a great week!!
Text to Text
Text to Self
Text to World
Text to Self:
Text-to-self connections are connections that readers make between the text and their own life experiences. Example: “This story reminds me of a visit to my grandmother’s house.”
Text to Text:
Text-to-text connections are connections that readers make to other things they have read, such as other books by the same author, or other stories related by genre or topic. Example: “This character has a similar problem to one that I read about in a story last month.”
Text to World:
Text-to-world connections are broader connections that readers make while reading. A text might remind students of something they learned through movies, television, newspapers, or magazines. Example: “I saw a movie that showed some of the ideas in this story.”
You may print out posters for these connection to post in your classroom. This is also a link to lesson plans for teaching these connections. Remember to teach your children that TEXT is not just a way to communicate with your phone. Teach them that text is words on a page.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=228
Let me know what you think! Have a great week!!
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