Visual Strategies BEFORE Reading
Build Prior Knowledge
Prior knowledge is using previous experiences to connect or predict upcoming events
Example: Look at this baby deer below. What is a baby deer called? Do you know other names of other baby animals? Do all baby animals have different names?
Prior knowledge is using previous experiences to connect or predict upcoming events
Example: Look at this baby deer below. What is a baby deer called? Do you know other names of other baby animals? Do all baby animals have different names?
Predictions
Use prior knowledge to talk about what is going to happen in the story or text
Example: While looking at the image of the book below, what do you think is going to happen in the story?
Use prior knowledge to talk about what is going to happen in the story or text
Example: While looking at the image of the book below, what do you think is going to happen in the story?
Picture Walks
Going through images only from the text to familiarize your student with the story's contents
Example: While only looking at the pictures in the book, can you predict what the story will be about?
Going through images only from the text to familiarize your student with the story's contents
Example: While only looking at the pictures in the book, can you predict what the story will be about?
Vocabulary Identification
Have students go through the text and identify the unknown vocabulary. Students can then create pictures to illustrate the meaning of the vocabulary before they read.
Example: Students illustrate science vocabulary words to help them with the meaning
Have students go through the text and identify the unknown vocabulary. Students can then create pictures to illustrate the meaning of the vocabulary before they read.
Example: Students illustrate science vocabulary words to help them with the meaning
Frayer models are another option to help with vocabulary
Example: Students fill in the Frayer model below with the definition of the word, facts that go along with the word, examples and
non-examples
Example: Students fill in the Frayer model below with the definition of the word, facts that go along with the word, examples and
non-examples