[MOSAIC] Joy textmapping

[Joy]

Barbara,
  Having the kids create the scrolls is the ideal way to do it, that way they have some investment in the process and the product. I've had second grade students create their own scrolls. Once they do one or two they've got it. I also think that giving them sections and having them jigsaw is a good strategy.
   
  

Barbara Punchak <bpunchak at verizon.net> wrote:
  Gina,
I recommended textmapping to our science and social studies teachers last
week at a meeting. The science teacher used textmapping with her kids
today---for the first time. She used a LOT of copy paper (30 page chapter)
and made 4 scrolls per class. She has SIX classes! I stopped in on my
planning to see the kids "in action," after she gushed about it over lunch
telling me there was lots of great conversation happening in her classes
regarding interpreting graphs and "predicting" what the chapter was about.
One drawback: she preferred to have groups of 4---to get everyone actively
involved, but a few of her classes are too large. (28 is her largest, 16 her
smallest) She taped scrolls for 3 hours last night. A modification she
thought of to include every student for every step...divide the chapter up,
make 'mini-scrolls,'and have the kids jigsaw it.

I'd love to try it with my classes...but using what? I teach reading and
language arts and most of the non-fiction from our literature book is quite
short. Any ideas?
Barbara/6th/FL

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of gina nunley

when you say you're using textmapping, are you giving kids those scrolls
with copies of the book pages pasted down? I have looked at that many
times, and as interesting as it looked, I couldn't imagine creating those 
scrolls for three classes of middle schoolers. Is it well worth the time 
to make them? Gina




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