The Visualizing and Verbalizing® Workbooks help students develop concept imagery and language comprehension. TheLiving Planetworkbook features high-imagery stories about the natural world, including animals, plants, and other features of planet Earth. Helpful icons show what area of science curriculum each story fits best.
The set includes three books: A, B, and C. Books A and B contain 20 single paragraph stories and Book C has 24 single and multi-paragraph stories. Each story is followed by questions and activities designed to develop imagery and critical thinking. Passages are written to follow the steps for the V/V program, from the Sentence by Sentence step through Whole Page step.
Workbook activities include:
Imagery Questions
Picture Summary Exercises
Word Summary Prompts
Page Summary Prompts
Main Idea Exercises
Higher Order Thinking Questions
Paragraph Writing Prompts
Each book is also available separately. Teachers and parents can use theV/V Workbooks Tracking Chartto track a student's progress through the stories and books. Available in a package to track up to 30 students' progress.
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.
