Conceives of reading as the general process through which meaning is construed from patterned forms of representation which take shape in words, visual images, auditory patterns, etc. Discusses reading's role in understanding the images of culture and overcoming the blindness brought about by the neglect of complex reading skills in the schools…

The study, involving 39 intermediate-grade disabled readers, found that visualization instruction plus pictorial display, in which subjects were instructed to make pictures in their minds and were shown a pictorial display that illustrated the temporal-spatial sequence of the reading text, was particularly effective in facilitating subjects'…

Intended to help young children learn to read with comprehension, this book uses visualization and drawing techniques with folktales. The folktales in the book (collected from around the world and freely adapted) were chosen to help primary- and middle-grade students increase their enjoyment and comprehension by eliciting a flood of rich visual…