Dave - Thanks for the info on textmapping - I use it in my classroom ALL THE TIME! I will admit that I do even use it in preparation for the ELA exam more as a "thinkmapping" and the kids follow their thoughts as they write an essay based on provided texts. They compare their scrolls to each others and to mine and see just how many times people go back into the text to pull out details, how we scan for those details, how taking notes the first time through can help us scan for relevant details more efficiently, etc. It works GREAT! I've also used it in poetry lessons helping kids learn how the structure of a poem impacts its meaning. I take a short poem and make a scroll out of it with a lot of white space. Kids try to make sense of it in one line, mapping out their process as they do. I then give them fresh scrolls and a pair of scissors. They chop it up into meaningful chunks, glue it onto a new sheet of paper, and repeat the process. It's not about recreating the original, but about working with words and structure to make the poem make sense. You'd be surprised at the sophisticated structures my struggling readers can put together. A lot of times, it is just as informative for me, as I can learn so much about a kid's reading process by seeing it mapped out. Of course, I've used textmapping in its traditional sense as well - teaching the features of a textbook. It's a teaching strategy I absolutely love to use and do recommend that everyone else try it in their classrooms at least once.
Heather Waymouth High School Literacy Specialist Honeoye Falls - Lima High School heather_waymo...@hflcsd.org (585)-624-7050 "Always show the you in you that makes you who you are." - Chidinma Obietikponah -----"Mosaic" <mosaic-bounces+heather_waymouth=hflcsd....@literacyworkshop.org> wrote: ----- To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org From: mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org Sent by: "Mosaic" Date: 02/03/2013 03:49PM Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 78, Issue 2 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org You can reach the person managing the list at mosaic-ow...@literacyworkshop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Good book to model the "think aloud" strategy to students with disabilities (Dave Middlebrook) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:03:17 -0500 From: "Dave Middlebrook" <dmiddlebr...@textmapping.org> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Good book to model the "think aloud" strategy to students with disabilities Message-ID: <07A033F7E9754C2A841B999A0AD95B9B@DESKTOP> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original To both Heather and Loretta, You might want to look into using scrolls and textmapping: www.textmapping.org For Loretta, this approach is an excellent fit for think alouds. For Heather, this will not help with the ELA exam, but it will help in class -- less so for passages than for more substantial texts such as chapters and whole books. As an ADHD/LD adult, I can identify with the notetaking problems -- with the anxiety caused by not being able to write and listen, of not having time to process before I write, of not knowing what to do at the moment when, as it always does, the structures that I've planned for structured notetaking break down. The larger issue here is that the current methods don't work so well for "disabled" learners. New, out-of-the-box approaches are needed -- and scrolls and textmapping are one such approach. It's a simple idea, but it really does work very well. More information: * http://www.textmapping.org/whWorkshopNotes.html * http://www.textmapping.org/comments.html Dave Middlebrook The Textmapping Project A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction. www.textmapping.org | Please share this site with your colleagues! USA: (609) 771-1781 email: dmiddlebr...@textmapping.org facebook: http://www.facebook.com/textmapping linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davemiddlebrook twitter: http://twitter.com/davemiddlebrook pinterest: http://pinterest.com/source/textmapping.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "loretta kelly" <lorettalke...@hotmail.com> To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Good book to model the "think aloud" strategy to students with disabilities > > Dear everyone,I am currently taking the class Methods of Teaching Students > with Disabilities. Also, I teach junior high students with autism and > other cognitive delays. I have to present a lessonin my methods class > next week, and I was thinking of modeling the "think aloud" strategy. > Does anyone have a great suggestion of a particular book that is really > good for this lesson? > Also, I am open to other suggestions regarding ideas for this lesson I > will be presenting next Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. > Thanks in advance. > Loretta kellylke...@seal-il.com(630) 728-3022lorettalke...@hotmail.com > >> From: heather_waymo...@hflcsd.org >> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:59:52 -0500 >> Subject: [MOSAIC] Listening Comprehension >> >> I've got a high school student that I'm struggling to find appropriate >> strategies for. ÿOn our 11th grade state ELA exam students must listen to >> a passage read orally twice. They are given 5 minutes between readings >> where they may look at the questions. ÿThey may take notes at any point >> in time. ÿStudents then answer a few multiple choice questions. ÿThis >> student LOOKS like an excellent listener - eyes and ears on the speaker, >> pen in hand taking notes, and focused in all regards. ÿYet, the student >> then misses the majority of the comprehension questions. ÿI've noticed >> the same thing while doing listening activities in my class. ÿWe've tried >> not taking notes, as she has expressed that she misses important >> information because she's focusing on writing her notes. ÿWe've tried >> structured notes - thinking about what type of information is generally >> presented in these passages and creating a quick visual plan of what to >> listen for. However, I'm still not seeing improvement. 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