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Create mental images:
Good
readers create a wide range of visual, auditory and other
sensory images as they read, and they become emotionally
involved with what they read.
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Creating images or a "motion picture" in your mind helps
one develop a better appreciation and understanding of
what they have read.
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As you create the pictures in your mind it makes the
pictures three-dimensional. This will help you
to connect the images with your life experiences.
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The images in your mind help you to personalize
characters, scenes, plot lines, facts, etc.
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When you are no longer forming pictures in your mind as
you listen to or read a story, it is a good clue that
you are no longer paying attention to the story and
there is a breakdown in comprehension.
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Watching the story unwind as a movie in your mind will
help you to continue reading the story. You will want
to "see" what will happen next in the story.
- The concrete representations in your mind will help you
move from a literal (basic facts) interpretation of the
story to inferential thinking (predicting, inferring, etc.)
Inferential thinking is a higher level thinking skill than
basic recall of facts. It shows a truer understanding of
the information that is read.