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The Textmapping Project
A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction

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Classroom Teachers: We receive emails from teachers like you every day. They link to us from their classroom pages - like this from Share to Learn and this from Classroom 2.0. And they send us lots of comments as well. We love to hear from you! Here's how you can contact us.

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London Metropolitan University: Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

Georgia Department of Education: Framework for English Language Arts, Fifth Grade.

Teachers.net Gazette: Cheryl Sigmon's June 2008 column, and her May 2008 column on Differentiated Instruction.

Infinite Thinking Machine: first segment, first episode!

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: in Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9-12, by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Cindy A. Strickland.

Rossella Grenci: in Le aquile sono nate per volare, published by Edizioni La Meridiana.

Creative Commons: Featured Content of the Week, 8/23/03

National Council of Teachers of English: Hot Topics Spotlight

University of North Carolina School of Education: lesson plan

State of Michigan: MiCLASS training program for middle school teachers

Syracuse University: Tutoring and Study Center

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Unrolling The Book

Welcome to my sandbox!

While I am writing Unrolling the Book, this is where I will be posting working drafts and photos. Please visit often and tell me what you think!

Unrolling the Book is about the ancient rolled book - the scroll - unrolled and reinvented for today's books, readers, and classrooms. You will learn how and why to use scrolls in the classroom to improve comprehension skills and strategies instruction, and for content-area instruction across the curriculum. You will learn why scrolls are the perfect platform for constructivist teaching that is richly differentiated and inclusive. You will learn how the simple act of unrolling the book opens new opportunities for reaching your students - how it broadens access, expands the zone of proximal development, invites engagement, creates extraordinary openings for conversation, and facilitates sharper insights and deeper understanding.



Second graders map a scroll on the floor. Scrolls encourage active engagement, collaboration, and thoughtful discussion.

second graders map a scroll on the floor
© 2004 Lori Jackson
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Fourth and fifth grade students collaborating to map a scrolled text. The scroll enables them to see at a glance the layout and content across many pages. This encourages them to stretch - mentally as well as physically - question and discuss.

Photograph: Fourth and fifth grade students collaborate to map a difficult text.
© 2004 Renee Goularte
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Students in a community college study skills class use a scroll as a catalyst for discussion and an explicit model for how to think strategically about text.

Photograph: Students in a community college study skills class use a scroll as a catalyst for discussion and an explicit model for how to think strategically about text.
© 2004 Barbara Gonzales
reprinted by permission
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