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Visualizing; What, How, Why?

September 24, 2012 in Comprehension, Reading

Visualizing is one of the sensory or emotional images that readers call upon while reading. As with making connections, visualizing involves us in the text. We move from a passive
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Tags: activate schema, comprehension strategies, drawing, engaging readers, fun reading activities, Independent Reading, mind pictures, quick sketch, read aloud, reading, teaching students to visualize, think aloud, visualization, visualize during reading, visualizing
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How Does Using our Schema Help us Read?

June 4, 2012 in Comprehension, For Educators, In the Classroom, Stories and Examples

A True Story This was the kind of math problem a third grade boy (let’s call him Tommy) in a special education class was trying to solve. It was
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Tags: activate schema, background knowledge, best practices in literacy, comprehension strategies, creating schema, explicit teaching, literacy, reading and math, reading word problems, schema, struggling readers, word problems
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