Visualizing activities

We are going to read Green Giant by Jack Prelutsky and create mental images. I'm excited to see what they end up creating. I wrote the poem ...

In this video, I share about how I teach clarifying to my 2nd graders. I use concrete activities to grab the students attention, engage them in meaningful le...

Here is a visualizing anchor chart I made and will be using with my first graders this week!

3 visualizing activities for first grade

Visualizing

This super visualization activity gives children a piece of text to read. They can then highlight the parts of the text they will use to draw a visualization in the space above.

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

Today I thought I would share another one of my favorite books for teaching reading, specifically the reading strategy visualizing. Sometime...

In this series we'll examine what research says about whether we should teach knowledge or reading comprehension strategies (spoiler alert: we should teach both!). Then we'll look at specific ways to teach the following in

I've told you before how I have jumped on the anchor chart bandwagon....so here is my latest chart to share with you! We have been working on visualizing this week, which is probably one of my favorite comprehension strategies! Of course I can't take credit for my poster because I "borrowed" the ideas from multiple posters that I found here and here on Pinterest and I used the idea from our Interactive Notebooks from Nicole Shelby. We really focused on using all of the senses when…