Creating+Images-Visualizing

Students often times rely on the pictures associated with text. Good readers also create pictures in their mind. These visual images are powerful and help to keep us engaged while we read. Where do these visual images come from? When we visualize we connect our own personal schema with clues provided by the author. It's like having an ongoing movie in our mind. When we visualize we are in fact inferring what the author wants us to know and understand. Proficient readers create images from all of their senses. Visualizing occurs before we read, while we read, and after we read and our images change as we read on and obtain new information. Visualizing enhance understanding. Check-ins Visualizing check-in [|Completed Organizer Sample]-Easiteach File
 * Graphic organizer **

**Entire Units** Poetry Unit from Austin Schools

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 * Lessons-Chapter/Picture books **
 * [|The Hobbit]-Visualizing Piece-Motion Picture in your mind.
 * Link to [|Anchor Charts]

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 * Lessons-Poetry **
 * [|My Man Blue]-Worksheet that goes along with Fearless, Class Bully, His Hands, My Own Man
 * [|I Love the Look of Words]-Maya Angelo
 * [|Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out]- Shel Silverstein
 * To You poem
 * They Are Sleeping Poem
 * In the Almost Light~Scarecrow~Story poems