Chapter 6 Creating Mental Images

Start with: Night Sounds, Morning Colors by Rosemary Wells y Look. Listen. Open your senses y Mental images seem to make the text come alive for me y Because of the connections to it and the images they create in my mind. Someone else reading the book would have different images. Because that person s schema is different.

Anchor Lessons y images are created from readers schema and words in the text (before, during and after) y readers create images to form unique interpretations, clarify thinking, draw conclusions, and enhance understanding y readers images are influenced by the shared images of others y images are fluid; readers adapt them to incorporate new information as they read y evoking vivid mental images helps readers create vivid images in their writing