Visualizing

Today we talked about how visualizing can be an effective strategy to connect to a text. 

I then read them the two first stanzas of a very descriptive poem entitled My Neighbour's Dog. The students (and Mrs. Kelly) then drew what they visualized. 

Once they had finished their drawing,  I read the last stanza of the poem. It provides more details and has an interesting twist. The students then drew their new visualization based on the entire poem!

Here are a few of their visual images...