“A visual display helps readers understand, organise, and remember some those thousand words” (Duke & Pearson, 2002, p. 217). Visualising refers to students’ abilities to extract and represent the ideas (visual thoughts) from the texts they read or the words they hear. In particular, students will benefit from drawing semantic maps or flow charts if the text is instruction or information based.
The YouTube clip below is an interesting resource can be used in the classroom to demonstrate to the students about what visualising reading strategy is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY7Mz7Qi4x0
The book series of Active readers (middle and upper primary) is a very useful resource to assist teachers, and middle and upper students in six comprehension strategies.http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/activereaders/index.html
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https://students.education.unimelb.edu.au/LiteracyResearch/pub/teaching_strategies/B_Ryan_TS.pdf
The document above is a practical resource for teachers to implement visualisation strategy to help and increase reading comprehension in students with low comprehension. |