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Author: Holly Krech Thomas

21 November 2020


MinneTESOL Journal, (2020), Vol. 36(Issue 2)

The big picture: Visualization as a tool for decoding and reading comprehension

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…
0 By Holly Krech Thomas 
Holly Krech Thomas
hollykrechthomas@gmail.com

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.

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