Visualizing Activities For First Grade Susan Jones Teaching

Susan Jones June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment This post may contain affiliate ads at no cost to you. See my disclosures for more information. Teaching students to visualize while they read helps them to connect and comprehend the stories they hear and read in the classroom. I wanted to share some activities to help students visualize in first and second grade. I like using this activity to show students that our visualizations are often very personal.

Based on on our own past experiences, we tend to picture slightly different things even when reading the same text. For this introductory activity, I choose three different feeling words and have students draw a quick sketch showing what comes to mind when they think of that word. I don’t want students just drawing a face with that emotion, instead I invite them to draw a scene or a memory in the box which elicits that emotion within them. Naturally, one of the easiest ways to have students practice visualizing is for them to listen to a story or poem without any images. This way they must rely on their own senses and past experiences to picture what is happening. You can just give them some blank paper have them color what they see!

Some of my favorite books for visualizing are below: Susan Jones June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment The visual imagery strategy (also called visualizing or mind pictures) encourages readers to engage their imagination and use sensory details from the text to construct mental images of scenes, characters, events, and concepts. Using visual imagery, students imagine what the characters might see, hear, feel, taste, or smell. The visual imagery strategy is effective for improving comprehension, especially in descriptive texts or literature rich in sensory details. Follow these few simple steps to provide practice developing students’ mental images:

In this video, learn three different tips to help students practice their visualization skills. (Susan Jones Teaching) Help kids understand their reading by teaching them how to visualize and create mental images in their head of what they are reading and hearing. From Into the Book (Wisconsin Public Media), lesson plans that help students learn to visualize:

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