In my quest to learn more about helping kids truly visualize and comprehend their reading, I've come across a couple of gems that have spurred on my thinking. The first is a set of handouts from an International Reading Conference presentation. The authors make a strong case for the relationship visualization plays as an author is writing and a reader is reading and how visualization connects the two. They also share simple activities and questions for helping move students from realizing what visualization is to applying as they read and write.
Another simple one page handout that I liked was from the Capistrano Unified School District. It includes all 6 main reading strategies, a simple definition, and a handful of questions that could help you assess whether or not your students are visualizing.
My biggest lesson so far...don't assume that even the gifted and advanced your readers are visualizing. Some are feeling the success of fluently reading books, but they have not yet figured out how to juggle both the decoding and meaning making. If you see them constantly picking a book, not finishing it, and going back for another, that's a good sign that they are struggling with this hurdle.
My next step...building a rubric for visualizing in my own words. That's when you really begin to own it, right?
Angie
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