Overview of Textmapping
Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content. It is practiced on scrolls [http://www.textmapping.org/scrolls.html], which are an alternative environment to books. Textmapping and scrolls can be used strategically, but they are not strategies. They are enabling technologies - simple, basic tools which can be used for reading and classroom instruction. The same strategies that
can be taught in books can be taught more clearly and explicitly by using scrolls [http://www.textmapping.org/scrolls.html] and mapping [http://www.textmapping.org/mapping.html].
- Textmapping involves long paper scrolls [http://www.textmapping.org/scrolls.html], colored markers, and a spatially-descriptive form of marking called mapping. [http://www.textmapping.org/mapping.html]
- It has seven key instructional benefits [http://www.textmapping.org/benefits.html].
- It is easy to learn and easy to implement in the classroom.
- Implementation costs [http://www.textmapping.org/costs.html] are very low.
- It has been used with mainstream, ESL, and special needs classes at all levels, from elementary through college.
Textmapping enables teachers to clearly and explicitly model reading comprehension, writing and study skills in the course of regular classroom instruction.
Textmapping shines a light on the pre-reading process. It focuses more attention on, and spends more time with, the text itself - lingering on the page, delaying abstraction, forcing readers to engage in a more careful in-context comprehension of both the big picture and the details, and enabling teachers to explicitly and systematically model comprehension processes.
It is low-tech, easy to learn, easy to teach, requires no special equipment, and can be adapted easily and inexpensively for use in the classroom. All you need is access to a copier, tape or glue-stick, and colored pencils, markers, or crayons.
People commonly confuse Textmapping with Semantic Mapping, Concept Mapping, Story Mapping, and other so-called mapping techniques - all of which are actually diagramming techniques. For more on this, see a comparison of Textmapping to other graphic organizers [http://www.textmapping.org/researchCall.html#diagrammingCompare].
Perhaps the best way to understand Textmapping is to make a scroll [http://www.textmapping.org/making.html] and map it [http://www.textmapping.org/mapping.html] yourself. To get started, click Next >> [http://www.textmapping.org/scrolls.html]|
The Textmapping Project seeks to contribute to the improvement of reading comprehension skills instruction.
Read more about The Project >>
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