Mental Image Lesson Plan Chapter 6 Tania Martin
Description: Students will use written text with no picture clues to create mental
images.
Goals/Objectives: NH 3.11 Draw and label pictures related to a story topic or
experience.
Materials: Books Today Was A Terrible Day by Patricia Giff
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Procedure: The teacher will tell students the following information: “Today we are going to use our mental images. A mental image is created as a picture in your mind. Mental images help us engage in the text in ways that make it personal and memorable. Today I’m going to read the book Today Was a Terrible Day aloud to you. As I read I will tell you about my mental images. I will draw pictures of my mental images on the board.” Students will listen and watch as the teacher demonstrates mental images. After completing the book students and teacher will discuss the mental images created.
The teacher will then tell students: “I’m going to read you another book and let you practice using your mental images. I will assist you as needed.” Teacher reads The Napping House, students draw their mental images on the board.
Assessment: Students will be assisted as necessary. Mental images on the board should relate to the story that is read aloud.
Resources: Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller
Mental Image Lesson Plan Mental Image Tania Martin
Description: Students will work together with a partner to draw mental images of a poem
and to dramatize mental images.
Goals/Objectives: IH 1.05 Demonstrate comprehension of an oral presentation on a
familiar topic using a variety of strategies with occasional assistance.
Materials: Copy of poems on pages 75-79, Reading With Meaning
Paper to draw on
Procedure: Students will listen to three poems read aloud to them. Students will practice drawing mental images of the poems on the board. Poems will be read aloud several times to help students manage their mental image. Teacher will then read the Fall poem to students several times. Students will draw a mental image to go with the poem independently.
Assessment: Students’ mental images should relate to the poems that have been read aloud.
Resources: Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller
Mental Image Lesson Plan Chapter 6 Tania Martin
Description: Students will listen to a book read orally and discover how their mental images change as the events of the story change.
Goals/Objectives: IH 1.05 Demonstrate comprehension of an oral presentation on
familiar and unfamiliar topics using a variety of strategies with little
assistance.
Materials: Book Greyling by Jane Yolen
Mental Image worksheet from Reading with Meaning, pg. 85
Procedure: Teacher explains to students that “Mental Images can change as we read. When we begin reading a book an image/picture is created in our head. As we read that images changes to go with the text.” Teacher will read the book Greyling. As the book is read the teacher will stop occasionally and students will draw the mental image that is in their head. Students will use the worksheet to draw their changing mental images.
Assessment: Students will be assessed by their completion of the worksheet. Mental images should relate to the text and show changes as the text changes.
Resources: Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller
Mental Image Lesson Plan Chapter 6 Tania Martin
Description: Students will respond independently to a poem using their mental image.
Response will be artistic and written.
Goals/Objectives: A 1.05 Demonstrate comprehension of an oral presentation on a
familiar topic using a variety of strategies with little assistance.
Writing objective IL 4.04 Write several simple sentences describing
a familiar topic or experience with assistance.
Materials: Book Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky by Georgia Heard
Copies of Mental Image worksheet from page 86, Reading With Meaning by
Debbie Miller
Procedure: Teacher will read the poem Hummingbird from the book Creatures of the
Earth, Sea, and Sky several times. Students will listen as the poem is read
thinking about the mental image that is created in their head. Students will
complete the mental image worksheet independently.
Assessment: Students will be assessed by the completion of the mental image
worksheet. Students will draw a picture and write a sentence about their
mental image.
Resources: Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller