Visualizing and Verbalizing® for
Language Comprehension and Thinking
by Nanci Bell
Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) is a learning program that helps students improve
reading comprehension, language comprehension, and higher order thinking skills by
developing the ability to create mental imagery for the language they read and hear, and
to create an imaged gestalt – imagery for the big picture, or whole. This mental imagery
for language is called concept imagery, and it is essential to comprehension skills.
Individuals with weak concept imagery may have difficulty comprehending what they
read, even if their reading skills are otherwise unimpaired. These individuals may have
trouble following directions, or expressing their own ideas in an organized manner. They
may be accused of being lazy, or of not trying hard enough, because words directed at
them seem to go in one ear and out the other. V/V® instruction can help these individuals
connect language to mental imagery and enable them to make a significant, measurable
improvement in language comprehension.
Visualizing and Verbalizing was authored by Nanci Bell, M.A., Director and CEO of
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, and the program has been used in LindamoodBell® Learning Centers and School Services partnerships since 1986.
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