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 Helpul Web sites
- Some Useful Picture Books
Websites:
Education World – Opening the Door – Teaching Students to Use Visualization
This website has information on how to teach visualization in the classroom.
This is a good website for helping you to plan a lesson using the making connections reading strategy. It has information on the reading strategy that can be used for further research on the subject. It is also a good source for getting lesson plan ideas and bibliographies of books that can be used for lessons.
Reading is Fundamental – Unlocking Student Understanding – Visualizing
This website has activities that teachers can do with students to teach about visualization.
Reading Lady – Visualization Poster
This website has a poster that can be used in the classroom.
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 Website, 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.