Dear Families,
The comprehension strategy of Visualizing is also know as making mental images or creating mind movies. Visualization is the creation of images in the mind as a student reads, processes, and recalls what has been read. Visualizing a picture or scene with words and phrases allows the reader to organize ideas, see relationships among ideas and make meaningful connections with them. Using visualization and discussing the pictures to check for understanding and discrepancies helps a reader increase comprehension.
Opportunities for students to discuss and share their visualizations of text will be our focus for this month. Visualization helps students to:
*Realize personal prior knowledge
*Check their mental images against ext for discrepancies and detail to gain a more complete understanding
*Match language to the images and improve processing of ideas
*Connect in meaningful ways to reading
It is important that students continue making connections to activate prior knowledge well into this strategy of making mental images. I want all children to learn that everyone's mental images are different because everyone's schema for text is different!
Thank you again for your continued support in and outside of school!
Sarah Vos
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