English Language Arts

Visualizing – Reading Strategies

Visualizing – Reading Strategies

Concept sheet | English Language Arts

Grade

3-6

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What Is Visualizing?
How to Visualize
Turn the text into pictures
Visualizing at a Glance
Reading Strategies at a Glance
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What Is Visualizing?

Visualizing is using your imagination to turn the words on the page into pictures in your mind.

A person reading with a thought bubble that shows the picture of a dragon flying.

How to Visualize

Turn the text into pictures

Use words as clues

adjectives to describe
verbs to create action and movement
nouns to identify people, places and things

Use context

to make sense of the words
to validate your interpretations
to imagine what it
- feels like
- looks like
- smells like
- sounds like
- tastes like

Adjust visualizations

when new information is received
when new interpretations are made
when new insight is available

Visualizing at a Glance

Summary of the visualizing reading strategy. When visualizing words as clues for the mental pictures, use the context to make sense of the words, imagine what it feels like and adjust your visualizations as new information becomes available.

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Reading Strategies at a Glance

Summary table of the 12 reading strategies: previewing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, decoding, visualizing, questioning, annotating, making connections, graphic organizers, inferring, summarizing and skimming & scanning.

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