What reading strategy involves generating mental sensory pictures of characters, settings, and actions while reading?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Visualization (mental imagery)
- Step 1: Visualization engages the reader's visual and sensory imagination to create internal movies of the text. Step 2. Mental imagery deepens emotional engagement, working memory retention, and abstract comprehension. Answer: Visualization (mental imagery). Why not the others: Subvocalization is silent pronunciation; rote memorization lacks imagery; surface scanning seeks isolated keywords.
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