Teaching reading

Visualising is an important reading comprehension skill. Use these two different hands-on activities to implicitly teach the skill of visualising. One activity included allows children to become more aware of the layering of ideas and understanding that occur as we are reading and how that can change as more information is gathered while reading. This task has children guessing 'What I am?' a clue at a time. With more than 30 different drawing prompts included along with the drawing…