Visualizing Verbalizing in Social Studies What is VV

Visualizing & Verbalizing in Social Studies

What is VV? -Helps our students, especially struggling readers, visualize images while they read. -When you read you create a movie in your mind. -Not all students are able to do this. -Helps students understand picture what they are reading in order to promote higher level thinking.

Why is it important in the content area? -Content textbooks are not leveled. -Not all students can read on grade level. -Reading provides a way for students to interact with key information in the content area. -Provides models of what it means to think and talk like a scientist, historian, mathematician, and so forth.

Why is it important in the content area? -Integrating curriculum -Real life application -Our students are English Language Learners

How can I use this for whole class instruction? -Model the first sentence for the students in the chapter. -Read the first paragraph out loud as a class. Ask students to think-pair-share what they visualized. -Important: Ask students what they picture.

Visualizing Characteristics -What -Size -Color -Number -Shape -Where -Movement -Mood -Background -Perspective -When -Sound

By about 8000 B. C. E. , some people had learned how to raise animals and crops for food. This knowledge enabled these people, for the first time, to live in one place. The Neolithic Age, or New Stone Age, had begun. This gradual shift from hunter-gatherers (food collectors) to farmers (food producers) is one of the most important advances in human development. People built permanent shelters. They settled in larger communities. Together, they produced what they needed. People developed new skills and made a variety of things that improved the quality of their lives. Over time, they also began to exchange goods with people in other communities for the things they lacked in their own villages. In this chapter, you will explore the many ways in which the development of farming changed human life.