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Teaching kids tothink in picturesand words can
increase
Imaging to Improve Comprehension
increase
comprehensionand improve
memory.
Mind Mapping is one strategy that helps Kids to do this
Imaging to Improve Comprehension
Requires us to
• Train kids to visualizehow to see the“mental movies intheir minds”
• Create leaningexperiences thatchallenge students to-show and tell-visualize andtheir minds”
• Teach kids to talkabout the images theysee in their mind’seye.
visualize andverbalize- what theyare learning so thatwe teach them how tolearn rather than testwithout teaching.
When readerscreate
scenarios andpictures in their
minds whilereading, theirreading, their
level ofengagementincreases.Stephanie Harvey, Strategies That Work
Mind Mapping Can help Kids to Workouttheir brain and grow some dendrites!
• When we think inwords
• When we think inpictures
The Left Side of theBrain Lights UP
The Right Side of theBrain Lights UP
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• Overturning decadesof dogma, scientistsrecently discoveredthat even into our
• It is not so much whatthe individualhemispheres of thebrain do, but how thetwo sides of the brain
Brain Science is constantly Growing
seventies, our brainscontinue producingnew neurons
two sides of the braincomplement andcombine that makes adifference for studentlearning.
Learning Changes The Brain
Plasticity is theability of the brainto change and“fine-tune” itself in“fine-tune” itself inresponse to thedemands of theenvironment.
Tools to supportvisualizing/mind mapping in the classroom
• Provide time to practice visualizing.• Teach how to visualize (structure words).• Integrate skill into homework and class
assignments.assignments.• Have students create group maps.• Use mapping as recall tool to begin class.• Teacher models how to create pictures in your
mind’s eye.• Change classroom language from “what was the
main idea?, or what happened next?” to “whatdid you see?” or “what did you picture?”