Welcome back readers! This week we are going to discuss the reading strategy “visualizing” and share an activity that could be used to teach children to visualize. With spring in the air we wanted to share a book to get everyone in the spring and Easter sprit! The title of our book is There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colandro.
In this story there is an old lady and she first swallows a chick, next she swallows some straw to cover the chick, then she swallowed an egg and didn’t get sick. The story continues with the same rhythm as the lady continues to swallow different items. Children would think it was so funny to hear a story about an old lady swallowing non-food items.
A way to use this book to teach children visualizing would be to read the book to the children and do not show them the pictures. Encourage the students to close their eyes and picture what they believe the old lady and the chick look like. After the students have done that, ask them to use their mental pictures to draw their own version of the story. Last, read the story to the children again and show them the pictures. Encourage a class discussion to compare what the children visualized and what the real characters looked like.
CLICK HERE for a reading of the book.
I think this would be an amazing activity to help students with visualization. Reading the book without showing the pictures, really helps children create a mental picture in their head for what they are hearing. Children love to draw so they will be very excited to draw a picture.
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Katie Lowery
This is a GREAT book to teach visualization to younger students! You could even have them draw their own pictures and compare them with their classmates and then sit down and read the book again. This time you would have students hold up the pictures that they drew and you would show them the books pictures! I love how a classic book can be written in so many different ways! Great job!
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This would be a fun springtime book to read to students. I can just imagine a classroom of Kindergartners laughing and laughing. You're right that this is a good choice for visualization since the students probably know all the words, like chick or egg. I didn't know there were other versions of the original book of "The Old Lady Who Swallowed..." Sounds like she has that disorder where people like the texture of different things on their tongues! Gross!
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