Visualization Practice Spring 2023

What is a strategy in reading comprehension?

• The ability to do something after practice, training, or experience.

• A plan for achieving the goal of better understanding what I read.

• It is figuring out the main idea in what I read.

Good readers visualize. Is visualization a strategy or a skill?

• strategy

• skill

What is visualization?

• The ability to see things that are faraway.

• The ability to see things that are very close.

• The ability to create pictures of a text in your mind.

• The ability to draw a picture on paper or an iPad.

Visualization allows a reader to enjoy reading more.

• True

• False

I can use to descriptions in a story to help me visualize or picture the ​ _____________ ​​​ , ​​ _________ , and ​ ​​_________________ .

• characters, setting, summary

• setting, events/plot, summary

• characters, setting, events/plot

• events, plot, summary

Visualizing is a Reading Comprehension strategy in which students create pictures in their minds as they are reading through a story or text.

True or False?

• False

• True

How can the use of sensory words help you in visualizing the elements in a story such as characters or setting? Choose two.

• enhances description and details of either element

• helps reader to summarize

• helps reader to determine main idea

• enhances understanding by helping with the mental picture

When I read, I can create a movie in my mind to help me better understand events, characters, and details of a story.

One should NOT use all of their 5 senses to create mind movies to help with understanding. True or False?

• True

• False

How does an author's use of figurative language help with a reader's visualization of a story?

• helps them with descriptive words or illustrative comparisons that create a better mental image

• helps them understand to how create a summary of the story

• helps them understand the main idea

The use of visualization can help me to better understand ____________________ .

Choose all that apply.

• setting of the story

• how a character looks and acts

• an event/scene from the story

• details about a topic (for mainly nonfiction)