Objective: Students will be able to self-monitor their understandings of a complex text by utilizing the strategy of visualization.
Essential Questions:
- How does visualization help us to understand the meaning of the passage?
- How can drawing images of main events in the text act as a visual summary?
- What can readers do if they don’t understand a text?
Enduring Understandings:
- Paying attention to main events and actions in the text can help trigger the brain to develop a “mental movie,” which lets readers know that they are understanding the story.
- Strategies, like active doodling, are important because they can help readers to determine if they’ve understood the text.
- When readers don’t understand the text, they engage in problem solving strategies like rereading or chunking.
Standards:
| Grade 6 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. | Grade 7 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. | Grade 8 CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. |
Materials:
- Coloring utensils
- Pencil
- Printed copy of “The Fox and the Horse” by Brothers Grimm: Foxand~3 (pinkmonkey.com)
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