This document provides resources and guidance for teaching reading comprehension strategies including visualizing, personal reading assessments, and strategy reviews. It includes example questions to ask students and recommends implementing the strategies in whole class, small groups, and independent contexts. Several book recommendations and writing exercises are also provided.

1. a text set
by Samantha Sheley

2.  “I Wonder…” pg. 17
 Visualizing During Reading, pg. 43
 Personal Reading Assessment, pg. 48
 My Personal Strategy Review, pg. 49

3. Key Questions:
 As you created your mental picture were you
able to keep adding details as more
information was provided?
 Were you able to think about your knowledge
and previous experiences to help you
understand this better?
 What could you do to help yourself remember
to visualize and make movies in your head
while you read?

4. •Model whole
class
•Apply in small
groups
•Use
independently

6.  All the Places to Love, by Patricia MacLachlan
 I Love You the Purplest, by Barbara M. Joose
 My Mama Had a Dancing Heart,
by Libba Moore Gray
 The Sound of Colors, by Jimmy Liao

7. Self assessment
tool/
conferencing
guide

8. Self assessment
tool/
conferencing
guide

9. •Ida B,
by Katherine
Hannigan
•The Tale of
Desperaux by
Kate DiCamillo

10.  Writing:
 Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning
Writing K-3, by Lori Jamison Rog
 Painting Word Pictures, I Knew it Was Spring, pg. 76-
79
 Show Don’t Tell, pg. 80-81
 The Write Genre, by Lori Jamison Rog and Paul
Kropp
 Color Carousel, pg. 146
 Diamante Poetry, pg. 146-147