Teaching with Text Mapping

This week on the blog,  I thought I would share a strategy to help support you with our up and coming standards RI.5 and RL.5

 

One of my very favorite strategies that supports text features & structure is text mapping!  It is a visual way for students see how information is organized.  It allows them to see the flow of the text and reinforces vocabulary & text features.   

Tips: 

• Choose a text that connects to a fiction story from your mini-lessons. 
• Color code the text features.
• Allow them to record what they discovered. 
• Model, model, model!
• Display their work!

Here are some of my favorite videos:)  

This is a great blog about text mapping!

CHECK this OUT from the Creative Core!

Text mapping is such a fantastic way to get students reading closely with a text!