READING
TO LEARN BY
Rationale:
It is very important for students to understand what they are looking
at when
given a picture. Then it becomes important for them to create an image
when
given only words. Visualization is a very important and can
become very
helpful when reading. When students learn to visualize when
reading, it
will make their overall comprehension better. "Today we will practice
creating images in our head from what we have read."
Materials:
Red
Gets Fed (class
set of decodable books for each student)
White
paper and crayons
Assessment
checklist
Procedure:
1. “Good morning boys and
girls, today we are going to learn how create images in our mind when
we only
see words. We will use the words to draw our own personal pictures.
"This
is called visualizing. We have all visualized before, when we think of
those
things that we want, we see a picture of it in our heads." "For
example, what is your favorite animal? Now without saying anything, I
want you
to picture the animal in your head. What we are doing is visualizing.
Now make
your animal do something. My dog is doing flips"
2.
"Now I want everyone to
visualize what it would feel like if we were in the North Pole right
now, as I
began to blow in my hands to warm up and shake because I have no coat."
I
have visualized all the snow, ice, and wind so now I am trying to warm
up" "Now everyone show me what it would be like if we were in Florida
in July." "I start wiping my forehead of sweat" See what we are doing
is
visualizing what we have heard, and created our own images.
3.
Give each student a copy of Red
Gets Fed, and have them create their own mental images.
Assessment:
I will ask the students
to draw what they see from the book they read. Then I will bring out
the actual
pictures from the book for them to be assessed and compared.
References:
www.auburn.edu/rdggenie
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