How can visualizing be practiced in a literacy center?
• Poetry center. Children can: Copy and illustrate a poem to keep in their own collection. Copy a poem, and then respond to how it makes them feel or what it reminds them of. • Listening center. Working with a partner, children can: Visualize while listening. Next they can tell their partner what they saw in their mind, or they can do a quick sketch to share. Then partners can compare their mind pictures. • Reading center. Children can: Write their thinking about books on sticky notes as they read books from the classroom library. Read and recommend books to others. Illustrate a story after reading it.
