Ahh, but Hermione, reading is not like watching a movie in
one's head for all readers. There are a fair number children
who cannot translate the words into pictures in their heads.
Some are not visual thinkers for much of anything, some just
can't turn the words into a picture even though they might be
highly visual in many other ways.

My one child who is an avid reader watches these movies in
the head while reading. The one who hates to read does not
have this skill.

On 9/24/09, Hermione wrote:
> How do you convince reluctant readers (some of whom may be
> reluctant because they are remedial) that once they get it,
> reading is like watching a movie in your head and very
> enjoyable? How do you make them see that it is way more than
> decoding the words?
> I saw a few 7th graders in a classroom who were sitting
> there with the books in their hands but they were not
> reading them. They were going through the motions. I saw one
> student with the book, "The Skin I'm In" which is a title I
> have been wanting to take out of the library and read
> myself. But this student was not into it. How can we get
> even remedial readers to experience the page-turning effect
> where you can't wait to see what's next?

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