You're on the right track. The highlighting and marking and mapping should all serve a purpose; they should be used to draw out what is important. Of course, what is important depends on so many things -- reading purpose, teaching purpose, etc. -- but the point is that scrolls and textmapping should be used in service of a larger goal. If you read my book draft, you'll get a sense for how that plays out. It's just a part of the draft, but you will find a few stories woven in that illustrate what you can do. There will be more when I publish -- examples from pre-school through college. In the mean time, feel free to call or email off list with a specific book/lesson idea, and I'll talk/walk you through some of the possibilities.
Thank you for your interest! - Dave 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 protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Heather Green To: Dave Middlebrook ; Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Teaching Literacy in Older Grades question I would love to see this in action! Maybe I am making it to be more complicated than it is, but I still feel a little foggy. I guess the sky is the limit. So, say for a fiction story, you could "map" or mark the elements of a story. Like, "Can you show me how you know the story takes place in the olden days?" Students could mark a sentence that gives this away, or a pictures? Do I have this right? Or, What is the problem in the story? What might students highlight in that instance? What else could I do? Thanks, I really want to try this with my first graders, especially this time of year they would be so ready to try these kinds of things. Thanks! On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Dave Middlebrook <[email protected]> wrote: Very useful for fiction. One of the key benefits of scrolls is that you can see an entire story at a glance. This helps students keep track of sequence and context; it enables conversation to be more concretely anchored to the text ("Show me where she says that..." "Can you show me where she learns about her best friend's secret?" etc.). Because everything is right out there, in front of everyone, conversations can go deeper into the details AND can "see" the larger themes and ideas as well. The strategies -- Inferences, predictions, questions, etc. -- are much more richly supported in an unrolled scroll than they are in a bound book. There are lots of ways to use scrolls for fiction. You can first read a story in bound book form and then go back and view the scroll and discuss the story. Or you can simply unroll the story as you read. This allows students to look back as you read -- which is a great thing. Scrolls can be simply opened and read and discussed -- and not mapped. Or you can map them. You can also use sticky notes. As the sticky notes and/or mapping accumulate, patterns will emerge -- characters coming in and out of the story, time sequences, etc. You can also talk about how a story can be divided into parts, based on shifts in the story line, etc. There is so much that you can do. Think of the scroll as just another book form -- one that provides capabilities that bound books do not provide. Scrolls really are an excellent book form for instruction. They really do complement the kind of constructivist teaching that "Mosaic" and "To Understand" and so many of the other books of this ilk are all about. I hope that this is helpful. - Dave 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 protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Green" <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Teaching Literacy in Older Grades question Dave, I am trying to understand textmapping. It sounds very cool. Is it only used for non-fiction? Can you give me an example of how you'd textmap a 1st grade story? I'm not sure I understand what you do besides highlight text features you see like titles, headings, charts, diagrams, etc. You should put up a youtube video of texmapping in action! Heather On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Montana Vasquez <[email protected]>wrote: Thanks! I've never seen those used in the classrooms in the I've seen. This sounds great. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Dave Middlebrook < [email protected]> wrote: > Try scrolls and textmapping. The approach makes reading -- and > thinking > and talking about reading -- about as multisensory as is imagineable. All > you need is a copy machine, colored markers, cellophane tape, and a > classroom full of kids. > > Scrolls are an excellent platform for constructivist teaching that is > richly differentiated and inclusive. The simple act of unrolling the book > opens new opportunities for reaching students. It broadens access, expands > the zone of proximal development, invites engagement, creates extraordinary > openings for conversation, and facilitates sharper insights and deeper > understanding. They are being used in K-16 classrooms precisely > because of > the multisensory component. It works. > > More information: > background: > http://www.textmapping.org/whWorkshopNotes.html#introductionHead > book draft: http://www.textmapping.org/unrollingTheBook.html > > Best of luck, > > - Dave > > 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 protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Montana Vasquez" < > [email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:52 PM > Subject: [MOSAIC] Teaching Literacy in Older Grades question > > > Hi! >> >> My name is Montana. I am currently ending my first year in a two year >> program. I taught 2nd grade this year and will be teaching 1st next year. >> Previously I taught toddlers in a Reggio-Emilia school for 3.5 years. >> I >> joined this listserve as a requirement for class, and I had a >> question. I >> find that the jump from teaching literacy in K and 1 is huge to 2nd grade. >> The earlier grades have fun activities, colors, and sensory >> stimulating >> information coming in. Does anyone have suggestions on how to bring this >> into a 2nd grade (or higher) classroom? >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org . >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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