[LIT] Reading Levels

[Alice Cortigiano]

Thanks Dave...that is an awesome site and I plan on using it with my
students in the fall and I will be forwarding it to all my colleagues.
Alice

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> Does anyone possess any creative graphic organizers that
> they have had success with on both fiction and non-fiction text to support
> summarizing???????? If so, could you refer me to websites or a work
> document?

 Hello Alice,

 You might be interested in scrolls and textmapping.
 * introduction: http://www.textmapping.org/textmapping.html
 * workshop notes:
http://www.textmapping.org/whWorkshopNotes.html#contentTop

 This approach supports summarizing in a varity of ways.  For starters, it
helps students do the work that must be done (pre-reading and reading
comprehension strategies) before an accurate summary is even an option.  In
the absense of this work, summarizing is likely to be a waste of time
(garbage in, garbage out).

 Dave Middlebrook
 The Textmapping Project
 A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction.
 http://www.textmapping.org   |   Please share this site with your
colleagues!
USA: (609) 771-1781
dmiddlebrook at textmapping.org



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