Teaching Resources
Center
Want to learn more or plan a lesson? Check out these links!
- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
- Fluency
- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Visualizing and Imagery
- About Visualizing and Imagery
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpful Web sites
- Some Useful Picture Books
Books for Children and Young Adults to use in lesson plans:
Cooney, B. (1982). Miss Rumphius. New York: Viking Press.
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.(E Coo)
DiCamillo, K. (2000). Because of Winn Dixie. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.(F DiC)
Dorros, A. (1991). Abuela. Dutton Children’s Books.
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City. (E Dor)
Fleischman, S. (1986). The Whipping Boy. New York: Greenwillow Books.
A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. (F Fle)
1987 Newbery Award Winner
George, J.C. (1972). Julie of the Wolves. New York: Harper and Row.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. (F Geo) 1973 Newbery Award Winner
Ringgold, F. (1991). Tar Beach. New York: Crown Publishers.
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name. (E Rin)
Zolotow, C. (1992).The Seashore Book. New York: Harper Collins.
A mother's words help a little boy imagine the sights and sounds of the seashore, even though he's never seen the ocean. (E Zol)
Quotes:
"Proficient readers spontaneously and purposely create mental images while and after they read. The images emerge from all five senses as well as the emotions and are anchored in a reader's prior knowledge."
1(Keene and Zimmerman, Mosaic of Thought as retrieved from the Education World Web site, 2007).
Visualizing personalizes reading, keeps us engaged, and often prevents us from abandoning a book prematurely.
2(Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A., 2000, p. 97)
1Keene and Zimmerman (1997). Mosaic of Thought. Retrieved April 29, 2007 from http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev094.shtml
2Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A. (2000). Strategies that work: Teaching comprehension to enhance understanding. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.