• Practice for every day of the school year • Help students prepare for standardized testing

picture as you read new details. Have students read the passage. When students have finished, pair 
them for the strategy practice activity or complete it as a group. Allow volunteers to share their 
responses. Then direct students to complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers together.
DAY
2
Remind students of the strategy. Explain that good readers often use good describing words 
(adjectives) or good action words (verbs) from the passage to help them visualize. Tell students they 
are going to read a story about a boy named Fabio. Then read aloud the instructions at the top of the 
page. After students have finished reading the passage, direct them to complete the strategy practice 
activity. Invite volunteers to share what words they circled in the passage. Record students’ responses 
on the board. Then direct students to complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers together. 
DAY
3
Remind students of the strategy. Explain that students will read about two seabirds—penguins and 
puffins. Read aloud the instructions at the top of the page. Remind students to pay attention to good 
descriptive words, such as names of colors. Then have students read the passage. When students 
have finished, distribute crayons or colored pencils and direct them to complete the strategy practice 
activity. Then direct students to complete the skill practice activity. Review the answers together.
DAY
4
Remind students of the strategy. Explain that good readers change their mental pictures as they read. 
Read aloud the instructions at the top of the page. Then read the first paragraph aloud. Model using 
the strategy: When I read the first two sentences, “fuzzy creature” made me think of a cat. But 
when I read the last sentence, I knew the author was talking about puffins. I changed my mental