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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