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A Community College Reading Instructor uses scrolls and textmapping with her students:
"I have used this technique with my adult ABE students. It really gives them an entirely different perspective on the material. Most students said that they were able to put text to pictures or graphs/maps much more easily. They also said that they were able to see the purpose of the chapter they were reading and understand its organization much more."
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An ESL college student learns how to tackle textbook content by using scrolls and textmapping:
"We started this assessment by choosing a chapter of a book and taping it together to form a scroll. Then after having the scroll completed we were supposed to highlight the different important parts of the chapter. We highlighted the title, subtitle, and supporting. Therefore, while reading we knew what was support by what. We also had to highlight examples/charts/pictures that made us understand the chapter better. After completing the highlighted parts we started noticing different patterns throughout the chapter. Of course, the scroll gave it a better view towards finding patterns. Some of the patterns I identified were how the author never stopped explaining a subject in one page. He would skip pages and then began explaining a same subject all over again.... Now by forming a scroll I can find what patterns the author used to confuse me. I noticed that [different] authors have a different way of explaining a subject. I also learned that charts and pictures can be very helpful while trying to understand the chapter. After this assignment I am sure that I will be very successful in understanding a college text."
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Scrolls are an ancient book format, but they provide clear advantages over our modern bound books - advantages that are particularly useful for teaching and learning. Just like today's books, scrolls can be used at all levels, from Pre-K through college and graduate school, and continuing/adult education.
Read more about scrolls >> [http://www.textmapping.org/scrolls.html]
Textmapping is a scrolls-based graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content.
Read more about Textmapping >> [http://www.textmapping.org/overview.html]
The Textmapping Project is a free resource for teachers, homeschoolers, and education researchers. It is the original and best source for information about scrolls and textmapping. The Textmapping Project's founder, Dave Middlebrook, invented the textmapping method. He pioneered the use of scrolls and Textmapping for classroom instruction starting in 1990, and has been conducting workshops for teachers since 1994.
Read more about Dave Middlebrook >> [http://www.textmapping.org/founder.html]
Read more about The Textmapping Project >> [http://www.textmapping.org/project.html]
On this site, you will find lesson guides [http://www.textmapping.org/lessonGuides.html], opportunities to network [http://www.textmapping.org/network.html] with other teachers, homeschoolers, and education researchers, links to research [http://www.textmapping.org/research.html] on reading comprehension skills instruction, and free teacher training [http://www.textmapping.org/teacherTraining.html] resources for teacher-trainers, workshop presenters, and schools of education.
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Here's what teachers are saying about Textmapping:
"For quite some time, I have been intrigued by your textmapping concepts and
have used and shared the concepts with teachers/schools that I serve around the country. The approach has helped so many teachers make break-throughs with countless students. Additionally, it has re-energized many classrooms that had grown stagnant with the same methods for reading and writing. We all thank you for your work in this area of literacy!" -
"Active, global modes of teaching reading comprehension are rare.... This is a great way to address the weaknesses in reading comprehension, and to teach active/metacognitive reading skills." -
"This is a great strategy for visual kinaesthetic learners. You have come up with the perfect platform for teaching traditional techniques. This is an in-context meaningful way to help students know themselves as learners." -
"This has great value to help visually organize text that some LD, etc. children just don't see on their own. This is a skill oftentimes assumed by teachers, especially at the upper levels!" -
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