Sketch to Stretch: Visualizing

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Sketch to Stretch Visualizing

• Goal a visual portrayal to extend literary
  understandings
• Examples of use
• (Setting) Have students visualize a
  scene/setting in a passage and draw it,
  incorporating the passage into the visual.
• (Summarize/Main Idea) Students choose the
  "most important moment" in the book and represent
  it graphically. When the groups share their work
  with the class, they should explain the reasons
  for choosing the moment they did as well as why
  they portrayed it as they did.
• (character traits) Students choose a character
  and portray him or her non-representationallyusin
  g color, shape, and visual symbols. When they
  share their work, they should explain why they
  chose a particular choices to portray the
  character.
• (Prior Knowledge) Prior to a discussion or
  text reading, ask students to do a quick sketch
  of what they know about .. Use the sketches to
  begin the discussion.
• For more information, see Rasinski, T., Padak,
  N. (2000). Effective reading strategies (2nd.
  Ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall.

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Sketch-to-Stretch social studies chapter 11
section 5
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Sketch to Stretch
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