Visualizing.

Another important reading strategy is to visualize.  This helps students place themselves in a book and understand what is happening.  Students learn that many of their mental images come from their schema and link it to something they've heard, seen, experienced or learned before. Students are enjoying taking quiet time to think about what they are reading and create a mental image or movie in their mind.  It's important for students to visualize.  This is especially important when a book does not have pictures.

We have started to practice visualizing with poetry.  Their mental images are hanging in the hallway! Notice how they vary and the things they connected with in the text.