Strategy 4 – Story Map
Strategy 4 – Story Map
Your Name: Rachel Denning
Name of Strategy: Story Map
Source (Where did this come from?): Lit Site
Link to the Strategy: http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingstrategies.html
Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source:
Using the story map helps to get the main ideas or events of a novel into a usable form on paper. This method could also be used for reading text books. Students write the name of the book at the top of the page and then divide their paper into boxes. They then write the title of the chapter on the top of each box. After reading each chapter, students fill in the chapter box with information to remind them of what occurred or was covered in the chapter. They can write important word or phrase, draw a picture, or write a summary.
Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity.
11th Grade English
Competency Goal 4.01
· examining the functions and the effects of narrative strategies such as plot, conflict, suspense, point of view, characterization, and dialogue.
Competency Goal 5.03
- demonstrating comprehension of main idea and supporting details.
- summarizing key events and/or points from text.
- making inferences, predicting, and drawing conclusions based on text.
Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn?
This strategy helps reinforce what student’s have just read and allows them to pull out the key elements of chapters. Often, students have a hard time deciphering and understanding what they have just read; this activity helps them to organize the information in a way that they will remember. This is a way to make learning personal for students because they are not being told what is important and what they should remember from a text – they are deciding it for themselves.
kk76572 said,
April 3, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Ways to organize thoughts are always good!
Katie Keech
Ericka Griffin said,
April 3, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Wow! I agree with Katie–that’s a good way to organize! Keeping up with plots and characters can be very tricky for students, especially with the complex classics! I also like that you give the students the option to either draw or write, instead of being conventional.
Ericka Griffin
Andrew said,
April 4, 2009 at 9:49 pm
This is a neat way of organizing. It has a very personal feel to it, so I believe students will appreciate the creative nature of the assignment. I’ve never heard of this method before. I’d like to try something similar in my own classroom.