Reading Strategy: Visualize

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Reading Strategy Visualize
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• If I cant picture it, I cant understand it.
• ---Albert Einstein

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• It is impossible even to think without a mental
  picture.
• ---Aristotle
• 348 B.C.

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• Mans mind cannot understand thoughts without
  images of them.
• ---Thomas Aquinas
• really smart dead philosopher

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• All thought depends upon the image.
• ----Ferdinand de Saussure,
• the father of modern semiotics

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• What is visualizing?

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• Visualizing involves picturing in your mind
  what is happening in the text.

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• When you visualize narrative text, you use
  sensory images like sounds, physical sensations,
  smells, touch, and emotions described in the
  story to help you picture the story.

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Visualizing narrative text involves making movies
in your head you read.
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Why is visualizing so important?
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• The brain sees in order to store and process
  information.

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• Visualization is directly related to language
  comprehension, language expression, and critical
  thinking.

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• Imagery is a primary sensory connection in the
  brain.

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• Visualizing heightens motivation and enjoyment
  of reading.

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• Visualizing improves comprehension of narrative
  and expository text.

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• Being able to create images, story worlds, and
  mental models while reading is an essential
  element of reading comprehension, engagement, and
  reflection. In fact, without visualization,
  students cannot comprehend, and reading cannot be
  said to be reading.

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• Whether reading fiction or nonfiction,
  visualizing is central to reading and to thinking
  with what we read.

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• This visualizing stuff sounds fascinating, Mrs.
  Eigner. Please, tell me more about it!

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As you read you create pictures in your mind of

• events and actions
• characters and their features, clothing, etc.
• settings and situations

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• Visualizing involves creating images that
  elaborate on or embellish story details.

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• Readers may visualize unmentioned scenes or
  actions or details, for example, picturing
  characters when they were younger or older,
  seeing a setting in greater detail than it is
  described, etc.

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• Readers may visualize themselves in a scene or
  imagine meeting a character.

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• Readers may feel emotions and may visualize in
  ways that heighten these emotions.

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• Readers may use images and experiences from
  their own lives to help them see and experience
  the text.

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Reading is . . .

• seeing and thinking!