Our Comprehension Club is all about making comprehension relevant to our children. Have you watched a replay of the Free Trial we presented to a ‘full house’ on December 15th yet? It’s a must see! Not only do we discuss how the 6 week Comprehension Club will run in January, but it was a great sneak peek into the powerful techniques your child will learn and develop. Different students are likely to prefer different methods so don’t be afraid to explore a variety! Introducing Bettering Youth’s Comprehension Club We hope this blog helps you to support your young readers to feel confident with visualising! It is so an incredibly powerful skill that no only unlocks the magical world of literature, but supports the deepening of understanding with other, less concrete, concepts.Īs you can see, there are a lot of resources here. Have Fun Teaching Your Child about Visualisation Going outside and working with the earth to differentiate between the different layers of soil. For instance, looking at a real flower when learning about plant life cycles or working with materials to increase understanding of energy and light production.Ĭreating a timeline or using a picture walk to explore the different eras. Using hands on experiments and visual aids, students can better understand concepts. Make use of visual aids to support the development of theoretical concepts such as using counters and beads to explore addition and subtraction. The key, as with anything, is clear instruction and consistent practise. Of course, there are ways for which we can embed visualising into other subjects. Once the expectations are set, then the activity should be fun and stress-free! Bring Visualisation into Other Key Subjects That this is a skill we are learning to develop. That perhaps not everyone will be able to visualise clearly yet. This activity must be preceded by an explanation that this is a practise. This guided practise supports students’ in practicing their visualisation techniques.Īn important thing to note when introducing this into the classroom is that some students might feel stressed. Use this guided visualisation to support students in developing comprehension The script can be simple and straight forward like the one we use: This would be a great way to connect the words to the images and check for understanding.Ī second powerful way to model visualising is to bring the students through a guided visualisation. Depending on the age of the students, I might follow this up with a short student presentation to share what words and phrases from the text evoked the image drawn. Following the short story, I would encourage students to draw what they “saw” in their mind. I would talk about the author’s word choice, and the use of emotive language. As I am reading, I will pause after a good description and comment about how the words used have helped me to create an image in my mind. One of my favourite methods to model visualisation is to read a picture book aloud, without showing the photos. In order to cultivate the skill of visualisation, it is imperative that we spend time modelling the behaviour. Teaching Students how to Visualise what they are Reading It can help students to learn to relax making them more receptive.Īs you can see, the benefits of feeling confident in visualising extend beyond the classroom! Therefore, let us jump into some methods that can allow young readers to feel confident with visualising.It can help students to develop their ability to create different sensory images.Visualising allows us to combines left- and right-brain functions (language and imagination).It can bring classroom activities to life and make them more memorable.Visualisation has been used to boost performance for more than 30 years in sports psychology.
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