Super Six Strategies Visualising Visualising Learners create a

Super Six Strategies Visualising

Visualising • Learners create a mental image from a text read / viewed / heard. Visualising brings the text to life, engages the imagination and uses all of the senses.

Visualising Example Questions / Statements: -What are the pictures I / you have I my / your head as I / you read / view / listen to this text? -Can I / you describe the picture or image you made while you heard / read that part? -How did the pictures in my / your head help me / you to understand the text? Teaching Comprehension Strategies Booklet originally developed as part of the Focus on Reading 3 -6 program

Visualising • Sketch to Stretch: • As a passage / story is read, students sketch their visualisation. In groups they share their sketches and discuss reasons for their interpretation. Teaching Comprehension Strategies Booklet originally developed as part of the Focus on Reading 3 -6 program.

Visualising • Graphic Organisers / Visual Organisers: • Introduce the Graphic Organiser to the students. Demonstrate how it works by reading a piece of text and noting key concepts and ideas on the organiser. Have groups of students practice using the Graphic organisers with ideas from an independently read text. Share ideas with the class. Choose organisers that match text structures and thinking processes. Examples include Venn Diagrams, Webs and Story Maps. Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3 -8 (Maureen Mc. Laughlin and Mary Beth Allen)