Reading questions account for a large portion of the scores in China’s college entrance English examination, therefore teachers and researchers have been studying how to teach high school English reading more effectively. In recent years, the 5E teaching model has been highly praised by teachers, which, as a constructivist’s learning framework, provides students with a complete learning path from engagement to evaluation. However, English reading requires students to have reading comprehension skills. And visual thinking, as a powerful cognitive tool, can assist students in organizing and comprehending information in graphical and problematic ways. The article aims to investigate how to combine the two well in order to apply them to high school English reading teaching. It is found that the integration of visualization tools into the 5E teaching model can not only help students improve their reading comprehension, but also improve teachers’ teaching efficiency.