Visualizing Reading

What is a strategy?

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

• A plan for achieving a goal

• It is figuring out the main idea.

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.

Which statement is NOT true about visualization?

• Visualization strengthens reading comprehension.

• Allows students to remember information for longer periods of time.

• It is not a useful strategy for reading comprehension.

Visualization allows a reader to enjoy reading more.

• True

• False

When using the reading comprehension strategy of visualization, it is NOT necessary to use the five sense.

• True

• False

You can visualize details about a reading passage even if those details are not present in the passage.

• False

• True

When you visualize while reading, the reading becomes more real.

• True

• False