Visualizing Lesson and Activities- Comprehension Crew

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students effectively understand and apply reading skills like visualizing? You’ve found it!! Visualization lesson plan and activities included!

This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach the visualizing reading strategy to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.

Victor The Visualizer will help you teach visualizing to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. Victor helps the reader notice little details in the text that paint a picture of what is happening. This helps the reader to imagine the text in their head and bring the story to life.

This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice visualizing.

*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program

The resource includes the following:

Character Posters & Visual Aids
Character Profile- includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
Concrete Visualizing Activity
Introduction & Modeling Lesson Plan- can be applied to any book
Teacher Implementation Tips
Graphic Organizers- 18 differentiated options for any text
Flip Books- 2 options that can be used with any text
Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Practice Visualizing Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included
lower readability- Park Fun
higher readability- What’s Cooking?
Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books

What is the Comprehension Crew?

Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, song, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:

• inferencing

• questioning

• predicting

• summarizing

• clarifying

• connecting- TRY FOR FREE!

• synthesizing

• evaluating

• visualizing

theme
Non-fiction reading skills:

determining importance
main idea
text features
text structure
vocabulary
Visualizing Crafts & Bulletin Board Pack

Teacher Reviews

Kindergarten teacher said, “My students really respond well to the comprehension crew lessons! The characters are so fun to introduce and it really drives the strategies home!”

2nd grade teacher Ashley said, “My students loved having a character to relate to help them understand and remember visualizing, I also really liked the passages that can help them to practice using a text to visualize”