Imagery

Imagery is descriptive phrases that authors use to help me visualize better.

[Draw a T-Chart labeled "Examples" and "Nonexamples".]

Reread a mentor text together, and using guided release, sort out examples of phrases and sentences that are imagery and that are not imagery and discuss why they are or are not. Some imagery is stronger than others, so talk about it. There's enough gray area to spark some interesting thought and discussion. 

[Fig19.C monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, rereading a portion aloud, generating questions); 

(8)  Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to evaluate the impact of sensory details, imagery, and figurative language in literary text.]