Visualizing as a Reading Strategy

From Secret of the Dance by Andrea Spalding and Alfred Scow:

I knelt in the prow and stared and stared at the coastline.

"I see it!" I yelled.

Father smiled and turned the wheel.

"Ghi'lakas'la," Shouted the watchers posted at the entrance.

"Welcome!" "Ghi'lakas'a," we called.

Our voices echoed along the cliffs. The inlet narrowed. The mountains were the highest I'd seen. Our fish boat seemed very small.

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Read the passage. Then stop and try to visualize or picture the scene described in the story in your mind.

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Try to picture what the story is talking about. Try to make a picture or drawing in your mind about the boat, the cliffs, and the water. The illustrations or pictures in a story can help you visualize as well.

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When I read this story, I picture someone sitting forward at the front of a small boat. I see the boat going through really tall, narrow cliffs. And I think about people shouting loudly, echoing around the cliffs. What do you visualize?

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