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 <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> 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. www.textmapping.org | Please share this site with your colleagues! USA: (609) 771-1781 [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> 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? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
