The cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension depend on accurate decoding. This paper explains how visualization improves both comprehension and decoding, and it provides a variety of activities that encourage students of all ages to visualize both the forms and meanings of…
Holly Krech Thomas, EL teacher at Dayton’s Bluff Achievement Plus Elementary in St. Paul, recently began working at the elementary level after teaching for over a decade in higher education. With a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, she is passionate about bringing practices that are grounded in research on learning and cognitive processes into classrooms.
