SCENE The Visual Imagery Strategy

Pre-Test  Today- Part 1: Our Purpose: How well you understand the information.  Tomorrow- Part 2: Our Purpose: How well you remember what you read.  Effort Grade- Do you best and you’ll get 100%.

Pre-test directions  As you read the text, stop at each dot.  On your worksheet, next to the appropriate number, write a little about what you pictured in your mind while reading.  Read your SSR book when you’ve finished.

Comprehension Pre-Test  Yesterday, you read some text and wrote notes about what you pictured as you read.  Today, you’ll be completing Part 2 of the pre-test, seeing how much you remember about what you read.

What is reading?  Naming the words you see  Making your own sense of what you read  Fitting the new stuff in with what you already know  Making meaning- understanding and remembering

SUCCESS Visual Imagery + Effort = Success What “images” make a point in these scenes?

Why do we read?

Why Learn SCENE?  Other students like you: Before strategy- 34% mastery on comprehension After strategy- 86% mastery on comprehension  If your grades improved from Fs to Bs, how might you feel?

SCENE  S - Search for picture words  Read just the first 2 or 3 sentences. While you read, look for “picture words.” These are words that you can turn into pictures in your mind.  The food smelled delicious.  Example: Food

S- Search for Picture Words

Picture Word?

Picture Words?  In  Our  Where  Freedom  Hard  Liberty  Caring  Music  What  Flight  Around  Bright

SCENE C: Create or change the scene.  After you read the first few sentences, you need to create a picture in your head showing where this scene takes place.  Answers the question: Where?  So, what is a scene? A place, backdrop, or location

C- Create or Change the scene  Example: “I was so tired, so worn out, inside my body and head and outside where my muscles was, I just fell into the bed with them cornshucks just rustling under me. I didn’t even wash up or take off my clothes like my mama made me to do.”  What are some picture words?

C- Create or Change the scene  Picture Words  Body  Head  Muscles  Bed  Fell  cornshucks  “I was so tired, so worn out, inside my body and head and outside where my muscles was, I just fell into the bed with them cornshucks just rustling under me. I didn’t even wash up or take off my clothes like my mama made me to do.” Create a scene –A small, dark shack, empty except for a homemade sack bed on the floor.

SC E NE E- Enter lots of details  Details are the small parts of the picture you are creating.  Color of hair  Wall color  Decorations in the room  Inside or outside  Sunny or dark  Crowded or empty

E- Enter Lots of Details  “I was so tired, so worn out, inside my body and head and outside where my muscles was, I just fell into the bed with them cornshucks just rustling under me. I didn’t even wash up or take off my clothes like my mama made me to do.” Search for picture words Create a scene Enter details - young black girl who looks exhausted - lying on bed fully dressed in an old, long dress and muddy, worn boots - dusty, grey dirt covers her hands and her face is streaked with sweat through dirt

E- Enter Details  Your turn: What details do you see in this section of text?  An old black woman, wearing a long grey gown is holding a candle in one hand and her head is wrapped.  She is shaking Clora’s shoulder hard and Clora’s eyes are barely opening.  “But the shakin’ kept up and somebody, Miz Elliz, was callin my name. ‘Clora, Clora child! Wake up! Wake up!’ Miz Elliz was the old woman who watched out for the babies while their mamas was in the fields.”

SCENE  N- Name the parts  Putting all of the information together into one word picture.  Example: I see a small, dark shack, empty except for a homemade sack bed on the floor. There is a young, thin black girl who looks exhausted. She is lying on bed fully dressed in an old, long dress and muddy, worn boots. Dusty, grey dirt covers her hands and her face is streaked with sweat through dirt.

SCENE  E- Evaluate your picture  Check your picture with what you read and make sure it is accurate.  What if you keep reading and you find that something you pictured was wrong?  Make the change to your scene.

SCENE Review  S- Search for picture words  C- Create the scene  E- Enter lots of details  N- Name the parts  E- Evaluate your picture

SCENE grading  Your “I see” statements need to have 6 parts.  I see a small, dark shack, empty except for a homemade sack bed on the floor. There is a young, thin black girl who looks exhausted. She is lying on bed fully dressed in an old, long dress and muddy, worn boots. Dusty, grey dirt covers her hands and her face is streaked with sweat through dirt.  Lime green- creates the scene- 1 point  Blue- details from the text- 3 points  Dark Green- details from my imagination- 3 points

Your Turn!  Follow the SCENE steps to tell what you see from this text.  “I looked out over them beautiful fields, up into that beautiful sky so full of soft white clouds and the sun so warm and good to shine down on this earth. I saw tall beautiful trees, weavin’ and wavin’ in the winds that come from all crost the earth.”