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e0110
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visualizing-reading-strategies
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Reading Strategies | Elementary
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English Language Arts
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Title (level 2)
What Is Visualizing?
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what-is-visualizing
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2 columns
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Visualizing is using your imagination to turn the words on the page into pictures in your mind.

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A person reading with a thought bubble that shows the picture of a dragon flying.
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How to Visualize
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how-to-visualize
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Turn the text into pictures

Use words as clues

• adjectives to describe

• verbs to create action and movement

• nouns to identify people, places and things

Use context

• to make sense of the words

• to validate your interpretations

• to imagine what it

→ feels like
→ looks like
→ smells like
→ sounds like
→ tastes like

Adjust visualizations

• when new information is received

• when new interpretations are made

• when new insight is available
Title (level 2)
Visualizing at a Glance
Title slug (identifier)
visualizing-at-a-glance
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Summary of the visualizing reading strategy. When visualizing words as clues for the mental pictures, use the context to make sense of the words, imagine what it feels like and adjust your visualizations as new information becomes available.
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Visualizing at a Glance - downloadable
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Title (level 2)
Reading Strategies at a Glance
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reading-strategies-at-a-glance
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Summary table of the 12 reading strategies: previewing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, decoding, visualizing, questioning, annotating, making connections, graphic organizers, inferring, summarizing and skimming & scanning.
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Reading Strategies at a Glance - downloadable
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See Also
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see-also
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Title
Previewing—Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/reading-strategies-previewing-0-e0106
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Internal
Title
Activating Prior Knowledge – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/activating-prior-knowledge-reading-strategies-e0107
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Internal
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Making Predictions – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/making-predictions-reading-strategies-e0108
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Internal
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Decoding – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/decoding-reading-strategies-e0109
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Internal
Title
Visualizing – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/visualizing-reading-strategies-e0110
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Internal
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Questioning – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/questioning-reading-strategies-e0111
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Internal
Title
Annotating – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/annotating-reading-strategies-e0112
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Internal
Title
Making Connections – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/making-connections-reading-strategies-e0113
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Internal
Title
Graphic Organizers – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/graphic-organizers-reading-strategies-e0114
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Internal
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Inferring – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/inferring-reading-strategies-e0115
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Internal
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Summarizing – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/summarizing-reading-strategies-e0116
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Internal
Title
Skimming & Scanning – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/skimming-scanning-reading-strategies-e0117
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