We started studying a new reading comprehension strategy this week: mind pictures are vivid mental images. Good readers create movies in their minds as they read. When readers can not create mind pictures while reading, their comprehension has broken down and they need to monitor for meaning or abandon the book if it's too difficult.
Good Readers make Mind Pictures because:
- Mind Pictures allow readers to create mental images from words in the text
- Mind Pictures make the reading more understandable
- Mind Pictures link past experience to the words and ideas in the text
- Mind Pictures help readers to place themselves in the story
- Mind Pictures strengthen a reader’s relationship to the text
- Mind Pictures help imaginative thinking
- Mind Pictures heighten engagement with the text
- Mind Pictures bring joy to reading
Good Readers:
- Spontaneously and purposefully create mind pictures while and after they read.
- Use mind pictures to immerse themselves in rich details as they read. These mind pictures make the text more memorable.
- Use mind pictures to draw conclusions, and help make the text make sense.
- Change their mind pictures as they continue to read. The images are changed to incorporate new information revealed through the text.
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