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Laura DeGroot
1st grade
March 6, 2015
Individual Student Tutoring
Visualizing

To help student think about what they are picturing in their

head while reading.
To help students pick out the theme(s) of a text
To help students infer meaning from what they are reading
that goes beyond what the text says explicitly
Text: Tacky in Trouble by Helen Lester; Arthurs New Puppy by Marc
Brown
Resources: Paper, colored pencils/crayons/markers,
The student will draw what she is picturing in her head as I
read Tacky in Trouble.
The student will be able to predict how Arthurs puppy
changes from the beginning of the book to the end of the
book based on a picture walk of the book.
The student show her understanding of the book by writing
down what she thinks is the main theme or themes from the
book Arthurs New Puppy.
1. I will start by talking with my student about how her day is
going. By starting with this I can get a feel of how her current
mood might affect her learning in the next hour. This gives
me the opportunity to make adjustments to my lesson plan if
needed.
2. Then I will read the book Tacky in Trouble, without showing
her the pictures. After I am finished reading I will have her
draw a picture of what she thinks the table cloth looks like
after Tacky stomped all over it. Then I will show her what the
book pictures it as and have her make comparisons.
3. We will move on to the story Arthurs New Puppy.
4. I will begin with a picture walk of the book. I will ask
questions like, What do you think is happening in this
picture? or How do you think the characters are feeling on
this page? or How do you think Arthurs puppy changes
throughout the book?
5. After the picture walk, I will have the student write down
what she thinks Arthurs puppy is like at the beginning of the
book and at the end of the book.
6. Then I will read through the story aloud and show the
student the pictures.
7. After I finish reading I will ask my student to write down what

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she thinks Arthur learned in the lesson. After she write this
down I will explain to her that what Arthur learned is called
the theme or moral of the story.
8. Then we will discuss other themes that might be present in
the book.
9. After we finish going through both books I will do the Running
Record with my student.
Visualizing strengthens our inferential thinking. When we
visualize, we are in fact inferring, but with mental images
rather than words and thoughts (Strategies that Work, p.
131).
Visualizing allows us to see the cause and effect of a text,
characters feelings and motives, and what the authors
purpose is in his or her writing (Strategies that work, p. 132).

Reflection
This was my second time teaching at Buchanan Elementary. The student I worked
with last week wasnt there today so I was assigned a different student. His name
was Kevin. He was a lot more talkative than my student last week and I got to know
him quickly. The lesson I taught today actually went much better than last weeks. I
felt more prepared on what I was teaching and I had a lot of opportunity to
incorporate strategies from last week as well as new strategies. I made a page to
assess what my student learned and he really enjoyed filling it out with crayons,
markers, and colored pencils. He was engaged in what I was teaching the other
time. We stopped on time to take a brain break and stretch because an hour is a
long time for a first grader to be sitting on the floor. Kevin loved the books I read to
him, laughed at the funny parts, and even had a few questions about what we were
reading. When I asked him to draw what he imagined the last page of the book to
look like he asked me to go back and reread the text on the page. Im really glad he
asked that because it reminded me that students often need to hear text multiple
times in order to fully understand it. I had a lot of fun teaching this lesson!