Information about the strategy:
Visual summaries provide students a chance to visualize what they just read. Some examples of this strategy that students may create are: visual picture, story board, diagram, or a PowerPoint. Visual summaries show the main ideas that the reader learned from the text through visual representation. This is not a graphic organizer and it can be used across all content areas to allow students to visualize the information. This strategy allows the teacher to integrate technology and 21st century skills into the classroom. How this strategy can be used in a classroom: This strategy can be used in the classroom when they read a text that does not have many pictures. This would allow for the students to visualize what they read in the text. This way would also allow the teacher to understand what the students understood from reading the passage that was assigned. Another way this strategy could be used in the classroom would be in small groups. Different groups could be given a passage to read and work together as a group to make a visual summary about the important information from the text they read. This could be any different type of visual representation that they group works on together. Writing standard:
There are two writing standards that summaries could fall under. These standards are W2 and W4. W2 is write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content. W4 is produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. |
Research:
"Research indicates that more 40% of students are visual learners, preferring to be taught through video, pictures, diagrams, flow charts, timelines, films, and demonstrations. Yet so much of teaching remains heavily reliant on presenting content primarily through verbal cues such as written or spoken words. Without greater use of visual learning in schools and other places of learning, many students are under-performing because of the inconsistency between teachers’ teaching styles and students’ learning styles. There is every reason to believe therefore that because such a large proportion of students learn better from visual learning, an improved balance between verbal and visual techniques would produce significantly improved learning outcomes and benefits for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of children and students." (What is Visual Learning?, n.d.). Video examples and explanations:
This video talks about tips for visualize learners. This strategy is used to help visualize learners comprehend the text, but it is also important to know how visual learners learn in order to successfully integrate this strategy into the classroom.
This video explains how visualize learners successfully learn. This video is very engaging and is important to watch to understand how students who are visual learners learn best. This strategy helps those learners comprehend what they read, but is also used with the whole class.
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Sources:
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.What is Visual Learning?. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 22, 2014, from
What is Visual Learning?. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.zaneeducation.com/visual-learning/visual-learning.php
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.What is Visual Learning?. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 22, 2014, from
What is Visual Learning?. (n.d.). . Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.zaneeducation.com/visual-learning/visual-learning.php