Skill Lesson: 🧠 Visualizing

I CAN Statement:
I can 🧠 visualize by using 🎯 sensory details to better understand what I read.

Standard: SC.ELA.6.OE.1

🧠 Visualize = making pictures in your mind while you read

Key Terms (with icons):

• 🧠 visualize

• 🎯 sensory detail

• 👁 sight

• 👂 sound

• 👃 smell

• ✋ touch

• 👅 taste

One-sentence overview:
Good readers 🧠 visualize by using 🎯 sensory details from the text.

Step 1: Define the Skill

How to 🧠 Visualize While Reading:

• Notice 🎯 sensory details

• Look for 👁 sight and 👂 sound details

• Pay attention to 👃 smell, ✋ touch, and 👅 taste

• Picture characters, settings, and events

• Ask: Does 🧠 visualizing help me understand this part better?

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​Step 3: Model
Skill Checklist

​“Now beside Athene appeared a young man more light-limbed than the stag, whose eyes were like sparks of fire.”

Excerpt 1

​The author uses 👁 sight details to describe the character.
I can 🧠 visualize him as fast and powerful because of words like light-limbed and sparks of fire.
These 🎯 sensory details help me picture the character clearly.

​​Student Model Analysis: (Little Johnny)

​Model Excerpt #1 (Step 3)

“The air was full of feathers, and the soil was hard with ice.”

​​Excerpt

The author uses 👁 sight and ✋ touch details to describe the setting.
I can 🧠 visualize a cold, empty place because of the 🎯 sensory details.
This helps me understand how dangerous the journey feels.

​​Student Model Analysis: (Little Johnny)

​Model Excerpt #2 (Step 3)

​Your Turn: How to Answer (Step 4)

• Read the sentence carefully

• Look for 🎯 sensory details

• Ask: Which sense is being used?

• Use 🧠 visualizing to choose the best answer