Recding Workshop
Visualizing: Movies in the Mind
Different readers rely on different strategies to help
them gain better understanding. Well-crafted picture
books can be used to teach and practice just about any
strategy.
Visualizing and inferring don't occur in isolation.
Strategies interweave. Inferring occurs at the
intersection of questioning, connecting, and print.
Visualizing strengthens our inferential thinking. When we.
visualize, we are in fact inferring, but with mental images
rather than words and thoughts. Visualizing and inferring
are first cousins, the offspring of connecting and
questioning. Hand in hand, they enhance understanding.
Visualizing brings joy to reading. When we visualize, we
create pictures in our minds that belong to us and no one
else.
Strategies That Work, Stephanie Harvey and Anne
GoudvisVisualizing Strategy
Read text aloud to children and ask them to visualize (see
a picture in their minds) what they heard read. It might
be a good idea to read it more than once. Next, read the
text again, showing the pictures this time. The first time
you use this strategy with children, model it on chart
paper, overhead, or board while you work through it
together.
Draw a T chart on paper. Label one column, "What I
Visualized." The next column label, “Pictures from Text.”
Have them list the things they visualized that were
different from what they actually saw later.
Another variation on this is to draw a Venn Diagram,
labeling the circles with the same titles above.
Talk about books that were made into movies and how
differently we had visualized characters and events when
we read the book and then saw the movie.
As children become familiar with visualizing, you can have
them work into pairs to complete a T chart or Venn
Diagram, Then you can have pairs report to class while
you write on chart paper only the different visualizations
that pairs came up with.
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