1. Gideon Nocero 10-12-2010

2.  Visualization is a way for students to comprehend what they read by creating mental images in their minds

3. Anne E. Gregory & Mary AnnCahill 2010  Visualization encourages students to listen to the story and create detailed metal images.  Provide opportunities for discussion of what the students visualized.  Have the students close there eyes, visualize, and then draw what they see.

4. Lauren Aimonette Liang & Lee Galda  Visualization is an important and effective strategy for understanding.  In short stories and poems, visualization is the main way that reader experience the text.  Visualization can significantly help in understanding the text.

5. Erin M. McTigue  Creating the setting of a story can help students visualize.  Challenging students to visualize leads to questioning and then understanding.  Story telling is a strategy to help students with visualization.

6. Victoria M. Naughton  Using a visualization strategy to teach story grammar helps students comprehend.  The two main components of comprehension are visualization and knowledge of story elements.  Visualization reinforces comprehension and creates discussion of the text.

7. Important Ideas  Everyone Visualizes  Teachers need to utilizes their students’ visualizations  Visualization helps students remember what they read because they create their own images.

8. Important Ideas  Visualization can lead to making connections in the text, asking questions, and inferencing.  Visualization is a direct link to the comprehension of any text.