An important reading strategy we all use is visualizing. When readers visualize what is happening in the story, they remember more of what they read or hear.

Making a picture or mental image helps readers in understanding what they read by creating images in their mind, based on the details in the text and their prior knowledge.

Roald Dahl uses very descriptive language in The BFG! As we read a paragraph describing the Bloodbottler we just had to get out our markers and draw what we thought he looked like!