Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity
Using these Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity, students map out the important details in a text to show their thinking while building reading comprehension.
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How to teach Reading Comprehension
Using these Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity, students map out the important details in a text to show their thinking while building reading comprehension.
Understanding how to frame your thinking when reading a text is crucial to reading comprehension.
Choose a literary text such as a story, drama, or poetry, pick a graphic organizer that best relates to your current curriculum and respond to the text. Use the graphic organizer to respond to the text.
Other resources to use with this Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity
If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about Story Elements.
Use this In Your Own Words Paraphrase Activity as an additional resource for your students.
Introduce this Thinking Maps for Reading Journeys Activity by listening to the Have Fun Teaching Reading Comprehension Song. Next, students share ideas about important details in a text that help them understand what they are reading. Then, students complete the activity independently or with a partner. Finally, students share the thinking maps they created on their reading journey.
These thinking maps help your students make predictions about the text and challenge your students to answer the 5 Ws, determine the characters, goal, problem, and solution. The maps also help your students determine the main idea and make connections to the text.
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