GRADE: 3-8 / TIME: About 1 Week for Understanding / REUSABLE + Bonus Strategies, Lessons
Making Visuals from Text ~ A Thoughtful, Flexible Lesson (5 Pages)
This practical, easy-to-use lesson helps students strengthen their comprehension by creating mental images while they read. By visualizing settings, characters, actions, and ideas, students become more engaged and better able to understand and recall what they’ve read. With step-by-step instructions, clear examples, and student-friendly sentence starters, this resource encourages thoughtful and creative reading.
What’s included:
A flexible worksheet that can be used with a wide range of texts ~ fiction or nonfiction ~ and revisited multiple times throughout the year
A simple activity to introduce visualizing before reading
Additional Lessons: A suggested sequence of foundational reading techniques to teach before introducing visualization (e.g., highlighting, doodles etc.)
Teacher rubric for assessment
This versatile resource is ideal for helping students bring text to life in their minds and to develop stronger, more active reading habits.
GRADE: 3-8 / TIME: About 1 Week for Understanding / REUSABLE + Bonus Strategies, Lessons
Making Visuals from Text ~ A Thoughtful, Flexible Lesson (5 Pages)
This practical, easy-to-use lesson helps students strengthen their comprehension by creating mental images while they read. By visualizing settings, characters, actions, and ideas, students become more engaged and better able to understand and recall what they’ve read. With step-by-step instructions, clear examples, and student-friendly sentence starters, this resource encourages thoughtful and creative reading.
What’s included:
A flexible worksheet that can be used with a wide range of texts ~ fiction or nonfiction ~ and revisited multiple times throughout the year
A simple activity to introduce visualizing before reading
Additional Lessons: A suggested sequence of foundational reading techniques to teach before introducing visualization (e.g., highlighting, doodles etc.)
Teacher rubric for assessment
This versatile resource is ideal for helping students bring text to life in their minds and to develop stronger, more active reading habits.
