Visualize Mountains over the Roaring Waves Kenny Tedford 4B Exploratory Teacher

Reading is not something to take easily. One should not teach children to read, but to love reading. To do this one must know how to read, which at 1st grade, most children can do. One important step was missing, and this was my lesson. Visualization. To really understand and see what you read, in a story, you must picture the images in your mind. It adds so much to what you read and allows you to go in depth into the subject, I decided to teach this because it works for me. I have gone through all of my life using this technique. It is how I am where I am today. I thank my parents for teaching me this lesson at such a young age, because without it my love for reading would have diminished a long time ago. Without reading civilization would fall into chaos. "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." Thomas Jefferson. This lesson I believed worked. I sat the kids down, read poems to them, and they drew. I hope this lesson sticks with them because in 16 years it has stuck with me.