Create film footage in your imagination.
Create film footage in your imagination.
Visualizing while reading has been shown to increase reading comprehension scores. Visualizing and Verbalizing is a book by Nanci Bell which takes the reader through the paces of connecting "right brained", visuo-spatial experiences with "left brained" language development, beginning with concrete images and ending with critical reading at the college level. Improvement in reading comprehension, auditory memory, oral language and written language expression results from such practice. The "right brain" images provide a hooking point for facts and details, thus helping memory. Visual imagery should be combined with self-questioning as you move through paragraphs (Ellis & Lenz).
Beyond concrete images of a sensory nature lies creative synthesis and abstract conceptualization, the ability to discern common themes and ideas from among many particulars. The ability to conceptualize is crucial to becoming an effective learner, a clear writer and an efficient notetaker.
RAP - for paraphrasing (KU) or click here to view an adapted paraphrasing lesson
SQ5R - an organized approach to reading and studying
REAP - for analytical reading and annotating (Eanet & Manzo). The packet contains a more extensive lesson on REAP, with emphasis on different "lenses" through which to annotate.
How to Read a Book - covers four levels of reading, summarized from Mortimer Adler. Also included is Dr. Manou Eskandari's SBCC Pol. Sci. 101 assignment which could be completed by using the fourth part of the strategy.
Reading Comprehension Tips - a compilation of strategies and good practices
Graphic Organizers - The purpose of using graphic organizers is to make text organization overt, which clarifies the structure and improves students' thought processes and comprehension. More graphic organizers based upon a variety of rhetorical styles are in the DSPS 77 course packet, which is available at the SBCC Bookstore (phone is 805 965-0581, ect. 2247).