Reading: Visualizing

Active readers visualize what they read. Of course, it is easier to visualize books that have colorful and descriptive language than it is to measure a mathematics text book.

When we visualize what we read, we create images in our head based on what we are reading and based on our prior knowledge. Visualizing is like making a movie in our head of what we read.

Visualizing helps us to be engaged in what we are reading so that we better connect to what we read and so that we remember what we read.