Reading: Module 4, Lesson 1 (Day 16): Literary Text: Engagement- Visualize to Focus
Reading Strategy: Visualize to Focus
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Hello readers! Today, I’d like to teach you how to maintain your focus as you read. Playing a movie in your mind that shifts and changes as you move along in your book is so important to staying focused.
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Visualize Strategy
Directions:
- Use the strategy card below to remind you to try to experience everything that is happening to the characters you are reading about.
- Pause every once in a while to ask yourself:
- What do you see? Hear? Feel? Taste? or Smell?
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Directions:
- After you are done reading independently, your assignment will be to respond to a question in a discussion post.
- You will be responding to the question: What did you visualize while reading? Include details of what you heard, felt, saw, tasted or smelled.
Go to the Next page for the discussion post.
Assignment
Directions:
- Remember as you are reading to use the strategies we talked about to help you visualize to focus while reading.
- In this discussion post, we want you to list the title of the book, how long you read and answer the question: Whose voice did you hear while reading?
Title of Book::
Time Read:
Whose voice did you hear?
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