[MOSAIC] questions for Dave, Joy, others on textmapping

[Dave Middlebrook]

You asked, "Is it stretching it to have the kids "see" the entire story 
before listening to it???? How will this affect their ability to 
visualize??"

Some of the fun of a story is in the discovery, in the feeling that 
something is just around the corner and not knowing what happens until you 
get to the end.  Showing your kids the whole scroll before they've read the 
story can take some of the wind out of their sails, but there are times 
where it makes sense to let them see the whole thing and to look either back 
or ahead as they wish.  There are at least three ways to cut this:
* Show them the whole story as a scroll, and work with them on previewing 
the pictures and generating questions, connections and predictions.
* Unroll the scroll as you read, leaving exposed the parts you have read so 
that your students can look back as they wish.  This has the advantage of 
keeping alive the mystery of what happens next.
* Read the book first, and then use the scroll as the common text for 
discussion.

With regard to visualizing, my experience is that scrolls result in a higher 
level of engagement -- which translates into more engagement with sensory 
imagining (visualizations, etc.).

Have fun with it!

Thanks for your interest,

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
dmiddlebrook at textmapping.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olga Reynolds" <ozreynolds at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" 
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Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] questions for Dave, Joy, others on textmapping


> Hi all,
> I just revistited Dave's site and after reading and
> thinking about it---I have questions that probably can
> only be answered by trying it out----the whole concept
> sounds "like it makes a lot of sense".
> I am going to try it on the first day of school with a
> read aloud (probably about the first day of school).
> Is it stretching it to have the kids "see" the entire
> story before listening to it???? How will this affect
> their ability to visualize??
> I am feeling comfortable with the idea that they will
> "sense" many of the feelings they will experience
> throughout the day and start to develop a sense of
> comfort that they will be ok???
>
> Dave, Joy anyone help me out with this.
>
> olga