Mini Lesson: Good readers VISUALIZE or create mental images to make meaning of their reading.

Thinking Strategies How we make sense of the world around us. Questioning Visualizing Connecting Inferring Predicting Concluding

Reading Strategy: Visualize What you “see” in your mind when you read a text. The mental movie you have running in your mind as you read. Use your imagination and five senses! Your mind focuses its mental images mainly on characters and setting.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins What do you see in your mind (visualize)? “Sitting at Prim’s knees, guarding her, is the world’s ugliest cat. Mashed-in nose, half of one ear missing, eyes the color of rotting squash. Prim named him Buttercup, insisting that his muddy yellow coat matched the bright flower. He hates me. Or at least distrusts me.”

Thinking Stems: Visualizing In my mind, I see ____________ because… I picture _______ in my mind because… I can imagine _________ because… The picture in my mind includes _____ because… The movie in my mind has ________ because… The author’s choice of words, like _______, paint a picture in my mind because … If this were a scene in a movie, then ____ because…

Two ways to visualize as you read your PCR book: Words that describe your mental image. “In my mind, I see…” Original drawings of your mental images

TURN AND TALK: Share some visualizations from today’s reading.