Picture books for visualizing

Knowing how to visualize may seem like something kids do naturally, but many do not. This post offers five strategies to help your students as they read.

Are you looking for powerful visualizing activities to help your students create mental images during your Reader’s Workshop? This humorous winter read aloud is perfect for visualizing details in a text. Your students will build their visualization reading strategies while listening to the story first without illustrations and then illustrate their own mental image. Excellent mental images activities for kindergarten, first grade and all grade levels!

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The list below contains the books I have used over the years for teaching figurative language. Some of them are designed to teach about figurative language and some of them are books with figurative language woven naturally into the poem or story. Just recently, we shared how we used one of these books to do a text ... Read More about Books with Figurative Language

Mentor texts are an amazing way to model and teach students a reading strategy! These are a few of my favorites to teach visualizing!

Teach students to visualize while they read with this free printable template! First, your students will draw a picture that appears in their mind while reading. Next, students will describe the picture on the lines provided. This free worksheet will work with any text! Download your copy today! #freeprintable #freebie #visualizing

Teach summarizing in your classroom with this collection of picture books as inspiration. Use them to teach how to find the most relevant parts of a story and dismiss what is irrelevant.

Learn how to introduce and teach visualization as a reading strategy to help your students build stronger reading comprehension skills.

Visualizing isn't always easy. This post explains how to use concrete objects to scaffold instruction for kids who struggle with this skill.

One important comprehension strategy that keeps readers engaged in text is visualizing, or making mental images. Included in this list, are books and poetry that use a mixture of the five senses to help kids make mental images while reading. *This post contains affiliate links. Picture Books for Making Mental Images Often times, picture ... Read More about Texts for Making Mental Images