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The second of the six strategies that all good readers utilize is visualizing. Visualization of text is simply making pictures inside your mind about what is being read. Comprehension cannot be realized without visualizing the setting, characters, and action of the story.
Television and movies create pictures for children, aiding understanding of literary elements, and picture books can scaffold children to reach the concepts from text to picture, but there comes a point when children must develop the ability to visualize for themselves.
§ Start out with simple phrases. Have your child close his/her eyes and picture a person or place you describe with words. She was a little girl with brown eyes and brown hair.
§ Perhaps your child will connect with what they know if you describe a pet or someone you know and let them guess the identity.
§ Riddles can also help your child visualize. What has black and white stripes and looks like a horse?
§ Finally, write simple text and allow your preschooler to illustrate it.
This is the School Marm,
Ringing her bell.
School’s out!
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