The V/V® Imagine That! Stories each have over 50 nonfiction stories to develop imagery for oral and written language comprehension. These challenging, high-imagery stories introduce true, fun, and unusual topics for students to visualize and interpret. Each single or multi-paragraph story is followed by Higher Order Thinking questions. Imagine That! Stories are available as separate books or in graded sets of three: Original (a mixture of story subjects), Fascinating People, and Wonders of the Natural World. At this time, only one title is available for the K-1 level. These books engage students with stories about:
Every volume of the Imagine That! series has about 25 Sentence by Sentence stories, 10 Multisentence stories, 10 Whole Paragraph stories, and 9 Paragraph by Paragraph stories (numbers of stories at each level may vary), following the steps of the V/V program. Each story is presented in language appropriate to the grade level, and the content is sure to fascinate students and instructors alike. Imagine That! Stories are leveled for Grades K through 6.
The Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) program develops concept imagery - the ability to create an imagined gestalt from language - as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking. The development of concept imagery improves reading and listening comprehension, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.
