Visualizing Sensory Details – Reading Comprehension Unit and Task Cards

Description

Help students picture what they read. This visualizing unit includes lessons, activities, and graphic organizers that teach students to use sensory details to comprehend and monitor their reading.

Visualizing is a great way to help kids comprehend and know when something doesn’t make sense. This resource is designed to support students in visualizing sensory details. Students are engaged with a hands on activity about sorting details into five senses and visualizing. Then they participate in a discussion about a modeled passage, practice with differentiated task cards, and apply their learning in a graphic organizer and a reading response.

Included in this product…

• Teacher Tips Page: the gradual release model
• Printable poster
• Concrete introduction activity directions: What do you see?
• Anchor chart pieces and sample
• Detail cards and graphic organizer for sorting during the What do you see? cards.
• Guided Practice: a reading comprehension passage to use during read aloud or shared reading to introduce identifying sensory details to visualize with a think-aloud. Includes guiding questions for using the strategy.
• Visualizing Sensory Details Task Cards: 3 cards at each level, 3 differentiated levels
• Graphic organizer for reading response
• Scaffolded independent reading response sheet (2 versions)
• Strategy Bookmarks

Happy Teaching!