Ashley Barker

Teaching Reading

09/16/15

Targeted Literacy Strategy or Skill: Visualizing

Grade level: 1
Objective: The student will be able to visualize to fill in missing information from a wordless picture
book, and draw what they visual with a written description.
Common Core State Standard/ PASS Standard:
RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Prior knowledge: (What students already know)
Students know how to read and write simple sentences.

Observations/Rationale: (Before Lesson) What did you notice in your students work that let you
know this lesson was necessary? (This will be an approximation this semester.)
Students have been struggling with comprehension of what they read. They do not visualize what they
read.

Materials Needed
Lesson from: Strategies that Work, pp. 133-34
Mentor Text: Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day
Materials:
Good Dog, Carl
Paper with sentence lines and space for drawing
Student Groups (whole/small group/partners): whole to individual
Mini Lesson Format:
Connect (AKA~ Anticipatory Set, Engagement/Pre-reading): We are all becoming such great
readers in this class! Its time for us to move beyond just thinking about the words and think about
the pictures that come to our mind from the words. To practice visualizing the stories we read,
were going to look at a wordless picture book. This is Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day.

Teach (Model/Explain): Lets look through this book together. (As we look through the book, I ask
one student to describe each page with one or two sentences. We stop when we get to the page
with Carl the dog running downstairs.) What do you visualize between these two pictures? (We
discuss ideas as a whole class.)

Active Engagement (AKA~ Check for Understanding: students try it out, teacher observes): Now
I want you each to draw what you visualize between the two pictures and write a sentence that
describes your drawing of the action. (I observe, looking for any misconceptions to correct.) Now
that everyone is finished, take a walk around the classroom to look at everyones visual picture. Do
you have a better understanding of the story now?

Link (AKA~ Closing the Lesson [with accountability for the skill/process]): Visualizing what
happened in between the pictures helped us understand the story. Visualizing what we read as we
read it will also help us understand stories. The next time you read a book, I want to visualize what
is happening as you read it. Make a movie in your mind.