Students Will Create Mental Pictures of Their Reading

For today's lesson, we were focusing on visualization.  The goal of the lesson was to have students create a mental picture of what they were reading and then to illustrate what they were visualizing as they read the text.

In their small reading group, I gave each student a different piece of the story Where the Wild Things Are.

They read the text and then used the iPad to draw what they were visualizing while reading.   They used the app Doodle Buddy to draw an illustration to match the assigned part of the text they read.

We were then able to share our illustrations and retell the story to the other members of the reading group.