adjectives

Terri Jennings and some others at Landmark have a terrific descriptive paragraph writing model. Adjectives are such a huge part of that.

I also do adjectives in my Visualizing and Verbalizing component to Language Arts.

Hi Susan,

What is your opinion on this: can students be TAUGHT to visualize if this is one of their major deficits.
On the WRAML my son scored a 2%tile for visual learning.

Is this something we should put much effort into or is it always going to be his weakness? Lindamood Bell really couldn’t give me a straight answer on this one.

Lulu,

While these students may never run great, vivid movies in their head, I believe the structure words and process-learning will greatly enhance what is perceived in reading (and listening, too.) Also has a positive effect on Written Language if used properly—i.e. directly instructed for most.

Not every student with a visual processing disorder fails to visualize. It is so quirky how the 7,000+ combinations of learning disabilities make it so difficult to generalize anything.

V & V is easy enough for most teachers to do from the manual, without training. I did it as a parent—without training—for reading but not writing. (I found out that my son has pretty good visualization skills when he can get his fluency rate up. He just didn’t talk much about images during listening.) My reading comp is stellar and visualization excellent. I’ve seen parents learn it with children using the twelve structure words. It is surely the easiest of the LmB items to use without training…give it a whirl!

I school, I do not have the luxury of 1:1 instruction using V & V—only small groups. Sometimes I can get in a little 1:1 V & V reinforcement.

The lowest kids often need more practice to automaticity than the others. Thus, all are ready to move on except the 1 or 2. I try to keep looping back, but sometimes that still isn’t enough. We’ll see how it goes in elementary school when I have several years to work with a student.

Students can be taught to visualize more easily if they lift up their eyes. This helps them access the visual cortex and allows them to see pictures more clearly.