Visualizing and Verbalizing

I took a workshop about 10 years ago by Lindamood Bell to learn their phonemic awareness program and their comprehension program. Their entire comprehension program, which is designed to teach kids strategies for comprehending reading, is based on visualization. They use it for vocabulary development and for comprehension of ideas and texts of all kinds. It was an eye opener for me who struggled with comprehension myself as a younger person. I really like the journal type activities where students can write their visualizations for a specific passage. I have used read aloud time to try to encourage visualizing and then verbalizing what they see. I have tried to encourage this in my own children when I read to them, especially chapter books with few pictures. Then I will occasionally stop and ask what they are seeing in the movie in their mind.

I really like this text book. It will be a great reference for years to come!