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Reading Strategy 5

“Make mental pictures.”

Good readers use the author’s words and their own experiences to make pictures in their minds of a scene as they read, making associations with previous information to expand their understanding.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Barrier Games
  • Guided Imagery (Primary)
  • Guided Imagery (Secondary)
  • Listen-Sketch-Predict
  • Memoir
  • Mood Swing
  • Read-Draw-Confirm
  • Reading Like an Author
  • Say Something
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Sociogram
  • Sort and Predict
  • Sound Effects
  • Split Images
  • Tableaux
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking Like an Author
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Who Said What?

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Primary
  • 12 Ways to Get to 11
  • Bats at the Library
  • Clic Clac Meuh!
  • Click, Clack, Moo
  • Emu
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • Is There Really a Human Race?
  • Help! A Story of Friendship
  • I Wish You More
  • In My Heart
  • Le Zloukch
  • My Blue Is Happy
  • One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab
  • Quatre petits coins de rien du tout
  • Salmon Creek
  • Taan’s Moons
  • The BFG
  • The Bravest of the Brave
  • The Name Jar
  • You Call That Brave?
  • You’ve Got Dragons

Intermediate
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Chalk
  • Chalk (Craie)
  • Crickwing
  • Duncan’s Way
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • Out of My Mind
  • People of the Land
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)
  • Wonder

 Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Three Questions
  • To This Day
teacher hints

Suggested teacher questions:

"When you read/hear these words what do you see?"

"If you were the camera operator shooting this movie would you be:

• Panning a large scene?
• Zooming in on a particular person or object?
• Going from high to low, left to right?
• Where would you be on location?
• Who are the actors and what are they doing?"

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