Great Readers Make Mental Images

As readers, we have been learning about how great readers create mental images as they read. This helps them to really visualize what's happening in the story. As we read various poems, readers chose the poem that helped them create the most vivid mental image.

Readers discuss their different mental images about the poem "Sad"

readers discuss their different mental images about the poem "Little Cat"

readers discuss their different mental images about the poem "Snowflakes"

readers discuss their different mental images about the poem "Dragon Flying"

When we came together to discuss our mental images, we had a great realization: our mental images are different, because our schema is different!  Readers shared about their mental images, and learned more about how special we all are as we all have our own schema that helps us interact with text!

Kamarah shares her mental image with Anthony

Readers are thinkers!

Here are our readers sharing their mental images after Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf!  Readers compared their different mental images, and were amazed at how their schema is so different! They then listened to the story again, and noticed how their partner's mental image influenced their own as they heard the text a second time.