English

Visualization

Visualization means a mental image that is similar to a visual perception. Visualization is when you’re reading a book and you can picture it like a movie in your head. You have an image in your head of what you just read or what you are reading.

Some examples for visualization in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, in chapter 8, I pictured Boo sneaking up on scout and putting the blanket around her shoulders. In chapter 21, I could just picture Tom’s face when they all said he was guilty. In chapter 23, I imagined Jem scratching his head with his eyes widening. In chapter 27, I pictured Mr. Link Deas yelling at the Ewells to leave Helen alone. This reading move helped me understand more as a reader, because picturing everything in my head is like bringing it to life and it helps me remember it later. Visualization sometimes helped me picture what’d it be like in their shoes.

I did not grow in this reading move because I’ve always used this reading move when I’m reading a book, or anything. I can continue to become a better reader through using this reading move by imagining everything. Visualizing all the important things in the book. Also picturing the settings, helps me with the text.

Text to Text

Text to text is connecting one story to another story or “text”. Text to text is reading a story, then thinking about another story and how it relates to each other.

Some examples for text to text in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one would be the help, compared to this particular novel both authors illustrate how mistreated African Americans were. They both demonstrate how simple African American can do nothing and still get punished because a white person wants them to suffer. African Americans were treated unfairly because they were a different color. These two novels were taken place in a racially intense time in history.

I think I grew a lot in this reading move, because I never really connected one novel to...