Very nice, Dave. I like that you included walking on the scroll, I find that
important.
Joy/NC/4
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
From: Dave Middlebrook davemiddlebr...@verizon.net
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Friday, June 5, 2009 6:56:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Textmapping for beginners
Hi Diane,
I'll start with a simple idea: Try scrolling a short novel that the students
have read, and post the scroll on the wall somewhere in the room. Do a quick
walk-through summary -- literally, by walking along the scroll and saying what
happens. As you walk and talk, make marks or use sticky notes along the
scroll. You'll come back to these later. Encourage your students to interrupt
you as you are doing this. They may want to mention something that you missed
-- for example, an observation about the plot or the characters, or some
detail. Others may want to weigh in, as well. Encourage conversation. Post
sticky notes to record student observations. Have them tell you where the notes
should go. If a student needs to find a particular event so that a note can be
posted there, have the other students help -- tell them that their job is to be
detectives. If, for instance, one student finds an event that happened before
the one in question, that's a
useful clue as to where to look. Help your students be strategic about
bracketing and homing in on specific parts. These are useful searching skills
that are even more important in bound books.
If you let the students engage and share their thoughts, you will likely not
make it through your summary. I'd consider that a success! Student engagement
in the conversation is the real goal. You're walk-through is just a
conversation-starter. The scroll will help your students remember the story.
It will help them generate questions and inferences. I will help them
determine importance. It will help them with sequencing, recalling details,
and putting it all together for a much richer comprehension.
There are significant differences between the process of doing this by paging
through a bound book and doing this on a scroll. The spatial diimension -- the
physical sense of the scroll's length and of where different observations tie
to the text (the scatter-plot trail of sticky notes -- is very powerful. The
fact that you and your students can see it all at once is very powerful.
You can do a lot with scrolls. If this sounds like it might work for you, then
save it and use it. Contact me if you want to talk through the lesson in more
detail. Or if this doesn't sound right for you, tell me what you might be
starting off with next Fall and I'll suggest a way that scrolls can help
improve the lesson.
I hope that this is helpful. Thanks for your interest!
- Dave
Dave Middlebrook
The Textmapping Project
A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction.
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- Original Message - From: Diane Smith dianelyn...@yahoo.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:24 PM
Subject: [MOSAIC] Textmapping for beginners
Hi!
I am going to be teaching fourth graders next fall and just heard about the
idea of textmapping. I find it intriquing. No one I know has heard of this
concept at my school, so my students will not have any previous experience
with it. Can you give suggestions on how to begin and types of text to use?
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