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Lesson plan

A plan for helping students learn a particular set of skills, knowledge, or habits of mind. Often includes student activities as well as teaching ideas, instructional materials, and other resources. Is shorter (in duration) than, and often part of, a unit of instruction. Goals and outcomes are focused.

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  To improve comprehension, children can learn to create mental images. These representational images allow children to visualize information into a summarized picture, making cued recall easier. In this lesson, the children will be led through constructing mental images for sentences and eventually move to constructing them for paragraphs of narrative prose.