Comprehension Exercises with Dylan - #1

I took my son through a guided visualization of a place we have been to many times, the local golf course. This exercise is a beginning step in visualization. When we were going through it he actually used his imagination also. He included a golfer on a golf cart in his description of what he saw in front of him. Familiar visualization is a great first step for the reluctant reader or reader who has comprehension difficulties. If you can visualize the story you are reading you will remember it better. Then it is no longer simply an exercise in suffering through an assignment that you don’t want to do in the first place. I started with a familiar place because I have no idea about his ability to create his own world. I wanted to show him that in his head he could see a scene unfold. And it worked.