During Reading: Visualize
{"Image DocumentName": "During Reading: Visualize", "Image ImageDescription": "Visualizing is creating a mental picture about the text. Visualizing involves. Picturing what the author wrote. Going beyond the text and incorporating prior knowledge and experience that deepen understanding. Readers visualize. The setting. The characters. The action. The other one is to visualize. As long as he was reading the words, they went in one ear and out the other. When he could visualize what he was reading, he made it his own. 1. Read first bullet. 2. Listen to this selection from Wikipedia about volcanoes. A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet s surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface. Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging. A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together. By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another. What did you learn? Now I will read to you and you sketch it as I read. Turn and tell your partner what I said. Read2ndbullet. Read 3rd bullet. Now sketch this: I was sitting on my grandma\u2019s porch. Show your partner your sketch. How would the different visuals that you all had influence the comprehension of the text? We need to be very aware that children bring prior experiences or no experiences to the text. We need to be sure they are visualizing in a way that adds correctly to the text. We need to teach students that, if they cannot visualize what is happening, they are not comprehending and need to stop and figure out where the breakdown was \u2013 was it vocabulary or were they not paying attention?", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}