Our "Asesora Lingüística", Marina Hurtado started out a training with the British Council on the Talk For Writing Approach with Julia Strong, a Talk for Writing in Secondary Expert. One of the techniques they learnt in the very first session of the training course was "Text Mapping". According to Jerry Webster, text mapping is a visual technique to help students understand how information is organised in content area text.
It involves marking different text features as a means to better understand and retain the content in a content area text/book or in a fiction reading book/extract.
In this case, we have mapped the very first paragraph of chapter 1 of our #AlQaReading Book Club in Year 1 (7th graders): James and the Giant Peach, by Roalh Dahl. This is the text that we have read out loud and below are the results of the students' mapping:
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Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had a happy life. He lived peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea. There were always plenty of other children for him to play with, and there was the sandy beach for him to run about on, and the ocean to paddle in. It was the perfect life for a small boy.
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