Reading is seeing : learning to visualize scenes, characters, ideas and text worlds to improve comprehension and reflective reading.

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This resource provides teachers with an overview of the research on visualization strategies and how this research may be used to improve students' reading comprehension. In each chapter, the author combines theory, personal experience and practical teaching activities to scaffold the learner's experience. Strategies include ways to activate and build background knowledge, to elaborate on textual details, to make inferences, to develop mental models of nonfiction text and to make text-to-text connections. Sample student work illustrates the expected outcomes of each particular technique. Suggestions are included for struggling and advanced readers.--Ministry of Education website.