Mental images and visualizing involve creating images from a reader's prior knowledge and words in a text to form individual interpretations that clarify thinking, draw conclusions, and boost understanding. A provided link outlines mini-lessons teachers can use or modify for their subject area to teach students how to visualize what they read.

1. Mental Images/Visualizing Steve Spiehs Bonnie Feeney Eric Brunz

2. Definition Creating images from readers’ schema and words in the text (artistic response) to form unique interpretations, clarify thinking, draw conclusions and enhance understanding.

3. http://vygotsky.ced.appstate.edu/reading_strategies/visualizing_inferring/MentalImageMini-lessons.pdf The following link shows mini-lessons that you could use, or adapt to, your subject area.