Has anyone used the Lindamood-Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing CD-Roms? I am wanting to find out if the CDs teach the skills at all, or if they are only practice exercises of what has already been taught. Are the CDs worthwhile? I have a student who loves doing work on the computer who sorely needs to work on comprehension.
If these CDs don’t teach comprehension skills, are there any other such computer programs that are worthwhile? Or is it best to just work on the skills without the computer?
Thanks!
Sandy
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Re: Visualizing and Verbalizing CD-Roms
Don’t know about the CDs either. V/V does deal a little with what they call “higher order thinking” which deals with things like main idea, inference, etc. but it isn’t primarily what the program is about, and I don’t think it is one of the program’s stronger suits. I didn’t get my one kiddo into it though, so I can’t say for sure. I think Janis has taken the training??
—des
Re: Visualizing and Verbalizing CD-Roms
Yes, I have taken the Visualizing and Verbalizing training, and it is a wonderful program! But no, the CD’s are only for practice, not for instruction in V/V. I have the CD but have never had the time to use it. The workbooks for V/V are excellent and give a wealth of material to practice the strategies with.
Janis
DOn’t know about the CD’s - but there are some comprehension exercises on my site if you haven’t found them already that might help. (One of these years I’ll figure out how to do them on “forms” so that students can just type in their answers… could be this year, if I apply that to the vocab. stuff I’m working on at the college.)
Be aware that a lot of “comprehension instruction” is really comprehension practice; that’s one thing that sets V/V apart. However, even it focuses primarily on instructing in visualizing what language is representing, which is only one element of comprehension. Interpreting and Organizing those ideas that are represented is a whole other battery of skills.