Visualising

Room 7 has been learning that good readers use visualising as a strategy to help them read. By painting a picture in their head, the text comes alive for the reader. One activity we did was the Nogard activity; students were encouraged to listen to the description of the Nogard and visualise what it looked like (some quickly worked out that a Nogard is Dragon spelt backwards!). They then highlighted in the text words that described the Nogard before drawing one themselves.