Fun with Miss Payne...Mystery Bags; Creating Images

Miss Payne was introducing us to a new strategy that we call creating images. Creating Images is where we take the information from a text and use our senses to help us create an image in our heads. Mis Payne told us that adults do this all the time when they read books with no pictures!

She first got us interested by creating some mystery bags. We were only allowed to feel inside and make a guess about what could be inside. Each bag had objects from the same place. We had to move around and guess each thing then use our knowledge to predict the place they were all from. Afterwards we read a story which linked to the theme, but, it had no front cover! Our job was to become the illustrators and design our own front cover for the story. We had a great time!

Creating Images is FUN!