How to Teach Visualizing in the Upper Elementary Classroom

As adults, it’s so hard to imagine NOT visualizing while reading. Visualizing is what makes the characters, settings, and events pop off the page. Visualizing makes us want to keep reading. And - it’s visualizing that allows us to leave reality for a moment and escape into another world. But - for young readers, it may not be that easy. They may not have been taught to focus their mind in that way - to create that moving in their mind. That’s where clear reading comp...