Strategies that WorkVisualising
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Debbie D
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Visualisation overview
• Visualisation strategies for fiction and non-fiction texts
Has visualising been taken into the hands of the media and away from imaginations?
Were children better visualisers before visual texts became so accessible?
Mu dictionary
• When we visualise, we are in fact inferring, but with mental images rather than words and thoughts. (Harvey and Goudvis)
Quadrant A Analyse
• Visualisation can • Help me predict• Clarify something in a text• help see the characters• help see the events, setting• Go beyond seeing to smell, taste, hearing, feeling• elicit emotional and physical reactions• Help me to remember
Quadrant A Analyse
• Visualisation is important in our lives,• Helpful for athletes, actors, musicians and
teachers!• Useful for setting goals and achieving tasks
Quadrant A Analyse
• Visualising is like…. • Use the cards to make an analogy about
visualising
Quadrant D Synthesise
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Visualising• Listen to the excerpt and imagine the person
in the story
Quadrant C Personalise meaning
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory images
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• Was it possible to develop your own images after the many versions of this character?
• And how important is it that students learn that it is OK to have their own versions of a character or setting?
Quadrant C Personalise meaning
Fiction/Nonfiction can be used for visualising• Think alouds • Illustrating with drawing• Illustrating with text description• Focusing on all senses• Using imagery• Character descriptions• Understanding that visualising is an individual
organise• Double entry diary
quadrant B-organise
A summary of the main uses for visualising, available on website
Full of ideas
quadrant B-organise
website
Great starting point
Comprehension shouldn’t be silentMichelle J Kelley
Nicki Clausen-Grace
Draw a picture of your favourite part of the story…..
• Discuss whether this is a good way to monitor visualisations of readers
• What if drawing is challenging for learners?
RIDER
Read – read a sentence, paragraph, paragraphs
Imagine – imagine the picture/draw the picture
Describe – describe what your picture looks like
Evaluate – evaluate/check your picture matches the story
Read on – continue reading
• Try this activity with an excerpt from Charlotte’s Web E.B White
Sketch to stretch
• A technique that can be used while reading aloud or used when a text has no visual images.
• Take some words that have helped describe the sketch to fully explain the visualisation
Sketch to Stretch
SketchStretch
Sketch: Stretch
Sketch: Stretch
Sketch: Stretch
While you are reading, or just after you finish, sketch what you are visualising, then, in the stretch boxes, add to the sketches in words. You might choose to add emotions, feelings, descriptions or other information that adds to your sketch.
Kerry Gehling from AUSSIE Interactive
Remembering a past experience using all senses on a concept map is a way of demonstrating visualising or using a piece of text
Creating mental images that go beyond visualising
Visualising all aspects of a character
Before , during and after reading visualisations
Double-entry diaryWhat I visualised How does this visualisation help me
understand the text better?
Use poetry to encourage visualisation of imagery
The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbour and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.“From the Fog by Carl Sandburg
What kind of little cat feet did you visualise?
The fog comes on little cat feet
The fog is compared to a cat
Skulking and silent but a presence all the same
