Creating Mental Images
“Listen and wait for the pictures to come alive in your minds.”
When readers create mental images they engage in the text at a personal level, which then will become memorable for them.
1. Images are created from readers’ schema and words in the text
Tried and True Texts for Mental Images
Close Your Eyes by Jean Marzollo
Color Me Rhyme by Jane Yolen
Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard
Footprints and Shadows by Anne Westcott Dodd
Goodnight to Annie by Eve Merriam
Greyling by Jane Yolen
I Am the Ocean by Suzanna Marshak
Mountain Streams (compact disc)
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant
Night Sounds, Morning Colors by Rosemary Wells
Putting the World to Sleep by Shelley Moore Thomas
Quiet, Please by Eve Merriam
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
Say Something by Mary Stoltz
What Does the Rain Play? By Nancy White Carlstrom
When I’m Sleepy by Jane R. Howard
Wild, Wild, Sunflower Child by Nancy White Carlstrom
The Zoo at Night by Martha Robinson
When readers create mental images they engage in the text at a personal level, which then will become memorable for them.
- Along with prior knowledge, images come from all five senses and personal emotion.
- By using poetry and picture books, children should practice creating images in their minds, and then make them concrete through the arts, drama, and written responses.
1. Images are created from readers’ schema and words in the text
- chose topics that children will have schema for
- poems must lend themselves to unique interpretations
- what about the poem is most important?
- how will you show it?
- did your image change after hearing others’ responses
- Create a 4 square sheet to record the changes
Tried and True Texts for Mental Images
Close Your Eyes by Jean Marzollo
Color Me Rhyme by Jane Yolen
Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard
Footprints and Shadows by Anne Westcott Dodd
Goodnight to Annie by Eve Merriam
Greyling by Jane Yolen
I Am the Ocean by Suzanna Marshak
Mountain Streams (compact disc)
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Night in the Country by Cynthia Rylant
Night Sounds, Morning Colors by Rosemary Wells
Putting the World to Sleep by Shelley Moore Thomas
Quiet, Please by Eve Merriam
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
Say Something by Mary Stoltz
What Does the Rain Play? By Nancy White Carlstrom
When I’m Sleepy by Jane R. Howard
Wild, Wild, Sunflower Child by Nancy White Carlstrom
The Zoo at Night by Martha Robinson
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