Visualizing Reading Unit Creating Mental Images Missing Tooth Grins

Visualizing and making mental images as you read is an important reading comprehension strategy. This visualization reading unit includes everything you need to teach this important reading skill! This comprehension Visualizing Reading Unit is well-planned for your readers workshop and mini lessons. This resource is filled with engaging lesson plans, reading centers, small group activities, reading passages, and more! Full, complete lesson plans are included, as well as assessments, small group work, reading passages, and colorful centers. Students will love the fun activities and teachers will love the easy set-up!

Get your planning time back! These lesson plans are so thorough that you can easily leave these for a sub! Each lesson plan will take one day, possibly two days. You can sprinkle the additional activities throughout the week. In my classroom, I would plan to spend 2 days on each lesson plan so that I could add in the additional activities that are included. I would also use the discussion cards during my guided reading groups.

When you use this reading unit, you will be able to effectively teach your students to visualize and make mental images as they read or listen to a story. The lesson plans make it simple to set up your instruction. Teaching our students to visualize while they read is an important reading comprehension skill. In the past, I’ve found that my students love learning to make mental images. They enjoy learning to “create a movie” in their mind. Below, I detail how to teach the reading comprehension strategy visualization in a fun, engaging way for your first and second grade students.

Click here to see it on Teachers Pay Teachers. With our brand new visualizing reading unit, you can plan all of your lesson plans! This is helpful if you don’t have a solid reading curriculum in your school district. There are 5 comprehensive lesson plans for you to effectively teach students to visualize as they read. You can assess your students before teaching your visualizing reading unit before you even teach it! You might be wondering why, but I find assessing students before teaching any topic helpful because then I can see what students know from the previous schooling.

If your whole class has a solid foundation in creating mental images while they read, then you will be able to plan your instruction accordingly. No need to teach something they already know! Then, you can give the same assessment when you are finished teaching as a post-test. Pre- and post-assessments are a great sample to keep for parent/teacher conferences to show the growth of your students to their caretakers. They are also great for data teams if you are measuring growth in that area. The reading passages included in this unit aren’t exactly passages, but instead poems.

I intentionally wrote the poems with sensory words so that students could truly create a mental image of the poem. In this lesson, a three-pronged approach is used to help students create mental images while reading. The first approach develops schemata (prior knowledge) and visual awareness (the understanding and interpretation of visual images) by introducing content-related picture books and having students respond to the illustrations using a series of question... The next approach capitalizes on existing visual comprehension using a strategy called Watch-Read-Watch-Read (W-R-W-R), where video clips build background knowledge and assist students in developing "memory pegs" as they read. Finally, students use a strategy similar to the think-aloud approach, creating drawings to illustrate and understand relevant information gleaned from print. Picture Book Questions handout: Students will use this helpful handout to answer questions about the assigned picture book

These lessons seek to capitalize on students' familiarity and comfort with visual imagery, while developing the independent skills needed to fully comprehend print using a visual process. This resource has been aligned to the Common Core State Standards for states in which they have been adopted. If a state does not appear in the drop-down, CCSS alignments are forthcoming. This lesson has been aligned to standards in the following states. If a state does not appear in the drop-down, standard alignments are not currently available for that state. Visualizing and making mental images as you read is an important reading comprehension strategy.

This visualization reading unit includes everything you need to teach this important reading skill! This comprehension Visualizing Reading Unit is well-planned for your readers workshop and mini lessons. This resource is filled with engaging lesson plans, reading centers, small group activities, reading passages, and more! Full, complete lesson plans are included, as well as assessments, small group work, reading passages, and colorful centers. Students will love the fun activities and teachers will love the easy set-up! Get your planning time back!

These lesson plans are so thorough that you can easily leave these for a sub! Each lesson plan will take one day, possibly two days. You can sprinkle the additional activities throughout the week. In my classroom, I would plan to spend 2 days on each lesson plan so that I could add in the additional activities that are included. I would also use the discussion cards during my guided reading groups. When you use this reading unit, you will be able to effectively teach your students to visualize and make mental images as they read or listen to a story.

The lesson plans make it simple to set up your instruction.

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