Often the process of visualising is to ask students to make a picture in their mind of what was read or told. Effective readers will make mental images when reading a text. Although, it is beneficial to use visualising alongside multimodal texts because 'comprehension strategies such as visualising can be enhanced if students have access to digital texts such as DVDs or animations' (Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl, & Holliday, 2010, p. 26). 'Multiliteracy and the digital age are making rapid and dramatic changes to literacy' (Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl, & Holliday, 2010, p. 27) which is why it is important to try and incorporate it into lessons where possible. Below is an example of how to incorporate ICT into the classroom to benefit your students comprehension using the strategy of visualisation:
Level: Upper Primary
Learning Intentions:
- Revise and recognise the reading comprehension strategy of visualisation through the use of print text and digital text.
- Understand and taking meaning from text.
Tuning In:
- Read a passage from Roald Dahl's 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory':
"'Of course they're real people,' Mr Wonka answered. 'They're Oompa-Loompas.'"
"The Oompa-Loompas are from Loompaland, which Mr Wonka describes as a terrible place. "Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles," he tells Charlie Bucket and the other Golden Ticket winners.
Loompaland is such a terrible place that when Mr Wonka invited the Ooompa-Loompas to come back to his Chocolate Factory, they leapt at the chance. Now they live and work there, helping Mr Wonka with his experiments and generally keeping his Chocolate Factory going.
The Oompa-Loompas enjoy singing and dancing. They're always making up songs. Their favourite food is the cacao bean, the central ingredient in a bar of chocolate, and in the Wonka Factory they have access to as many cacao beans as they could possibly wish for."
Main Activity:
- Ask students to visualise and draw what is happening in the text.
Reflection:
- Share work with class and watch an animation from the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :
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