Great Ideas for Teaching Imagery

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Using mental images

Good readers create mental images as they read to deepen the meaning of the text. This is often referred to as the "movie in your head". Many readers include more than visual images, however - sounds, smells, taste, and touch can all add to the experience of a text.
Proficient readers:

• use images to make emotional connections to the text
• adapt their images as they read to include new information
• use images to immerse themselves in rich detail as they read

Once students begin attending to sensory details in their reading, they begin to include it in their own writing as well.

Collecting "beautiful language" found during independent reading Link:http://www.hallco.org/literacy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=2