Good readers visualize and use sensory imagery while reading.
What Are Sensory Images?
As you muse over a poem, read a novel, or pause over a newspaper article, a picture forms in your mind. Certain smells, tastes, sights, and sounds emerge, depending on what you are reading and what life experiences you bring to it.
Reasons to Visualize
· Visualizing is creative and makes reading fun! This ongoing creation of sensory images keeps the reader hooked on the material.
· Visualizing helps the reader personalize the information and retain the information.
· Paying attention to the “camera” in one’s head is a great way to monitor one’s own comprehension. When the camera shuts off, that is a signal that meaning has broken down and the reader needs to get back on track.
What You Can Do
· Compare “pictures” with other readers. Ask, “What do you see when you read this section?” · Draw timelines, graphic organizers, maps, cartoons, and quick impressions based on your reading. Then discuss your products with someone else.
· Point out which words in a passage help you visualize . . . point out the phrases or sentences that give you a clear image.
Chapter 1 Assignment
While reading chapter 1 (pages 1-16), VISUALIZE! Think about the imagery (definition – the language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching).
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