Visualizing and Verbalizing Kit

Success in reading means comprehending what's been read. For over twenty years, the Visualizing and Verbalizing program has helped struggling students establish the connection between language and mental imagery, improving comprehension, fact recall, and critical thinking.

The Visualizing and Verbalizing Kit, revised in 2007, includes all the components needed to help instructors implement the V/V program. Whether you're working with students one-to-one, in small groups, or in a classroom setting, this kit provides what you need to do V/V instruction. The V/V Kit includes the Second Edition of the V/V Teacher's Manual, which was revised and expanded to include 100 pages of new material, with new chapters on classroom instruction, overlapping to curriculum content, and more. The V/V Kit also includes these helpful instructional tools:

• Large Picture to Picture Easel Book — with full-colour illustrations and teacher prompts for the Picture to Picture step.
• Picture to Picture Folder — this folder puts 42 full-colour, loose-leaf illustrations at your fingertips.
• Picture to Picture Transparencies — 10 transparencies for use on overhead projectors.
• Structure Word Cards — the structure words are essential to V/V instruction; one large set and five small student sets are included.
• Word Imaging Easel Book — with simple illustrations of high-imagery nouns, and helpful teacher prompts.
• Two Large Sentence by Sentence Easel Books — with three- and four-sentence stories, teacher prompts, and magnetic coloured squares; these are great books to familiarise students and instructors with Sentence by Sentence lessons.
• Coloured Felt Squares — coloured squares are essential for several V/V steps; these felt squares are colourful, tactile, and durable.
• V/V Stories, Books 1, 2 & 3 — providing an assortment of short stories with imagery- and higher-order-thinking questions; stories range from kindergarten to 8th-grade reading levels.
• Illustrated Structure Word Posters — these posters are helpful visual reminders for students, especially in classroom settings.
• Magic Stones Bag — the Magic Stones can be used throughout the V/V program as a behaviour-management tool to help focus and motivate your students.
• V/V Progress Chart — a pad of 30 charts, used to track your students' progress through the steps of V/V.

All V/V Kit Components are available for individual sale.