Guided Imagery

Guided Imagery

Guided Imagery Guided imagery helps students to activate background knowledge, and to preview a text in preparation for reading. Students use words and images from the text to generate multisensory visualizations of text content, and in doing so they become prepared...
Guided Imagery

Draw To Remember Summaries

Draw To Remember Summaries In this activity students will draw and write a short description of something they just read. These drawings and summaries can serve as guides for students to go back and review events from previous readings to help with memory and...
Guided Imagery

Costa’s Questioning

Costa’s Questioning This activity helps students to generate and classify questions at three levels: Gathering Information, Processing Information, Applying Information. This framework helps to expand and structure students’ questioning processes so that they...
Guided Imagery

Coding the Text

Coding the Text This activity provides an organized and time-sensitive way for students to respond in multiple ways to a text as they are reading. By using a pre-established “code,” students indicate a variety of responses they may have to a text without significantly...
Guided Imagery

Author Interview

Author Interview Author Interview is an activity used to deepen readers’ understanding of character, plot, the author’s message, or theme. By questioning the author’s choices in narrative development, students consider the author’s craft and the impact it has on...