Visual Strategies include the creation and automatic scoring of interactive visualizations or mental models.

The idea behind a Visual Strategy is to build a picture that matches what a student should be imaging after reading a text.

First, the reader is asked to visualize a simple static image - called a Brain Cloud™. Later in the text, the reader has two opportunities to construct mental models that are text-specific, interactive, and automatically scored. The goal is to create readers who are no longer one or two dimensional - but are 3D visualizers!