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
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1. Re: Good book to model the "think aloud" strategy to students
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:03:17 -0500
From: "Dave Middlebrook"
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Good book to model the "think aloud" strategy to
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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
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From: "loretta kelly"
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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 a
