Visualizing in Reading

This week we worked on visualizing in reading and I read the kids a big book story of The Three Little Pigs.  Although, this version had a little different ending to it than the usual story.  We talked about visualizing while reading and as I read the story to the kids, we stopped and visualized what I had read to them.  I didn't show them any of the illustrations.  At the end of the story, I had them draw one part of the story that they visualized in their head.  They did a great job with it and here is what some of them came up with:

I loved this activity because it worked not just on visualizing but it also worked on listening skills.  The kids had fun with it and they all were able to draw a picture that had something to do with what I read to them.  This is something that I think I will try to incorporate more often in reading instead of just doing it when I am teaching visualizing. 

Enjoy your week!

Visualizing and Short u finds!

I am always searching for new ideas and things to do to teach my reading and math.  This weekend, I found some neat things to incorporate into my reading.  The first thing that I found had to do with teaching visualizing.  I always teach it and have the kids take a piece of paper and draw what I read about.  This year, I found this cute worksheet from Life of a Someday Teacher:

 

 

Just a cute little worksheet that I will have the kids draw his/her picture in this week.  I will post some completed ones this coming weekend.

 

The other cute idea that I found has to do with teaching short u.  I found this idea of introducing

short u at:  Ideas by Christy:

 

 

 

I don't know how we ever taught without the internet and pinterest LOL!  There are so many neat ideas out there and I'm glad that we now have a way to share with others those things. 

 

Hope all of you have a great week!