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After
Reading Strategy Free-form mapping
encourages students to create their own text representations.
The only criterion is that free-form mapping is always a
cooperative team effort and occurs as a post-reading activity. After students have
read an assignment, organize them into cooperative teams.
Give each team a large sheet of paper and a set of colored markers. Tell them to decide upon the important ideas in their reading
assignment (power 1 and 2’s) and to come up with a way of presenting
their ideas on paper through pictures (changing words into pictures
encourages active synthesis of ideas), diagrams and a few words.
The class (not the group) can then explain the free-form
map, with the group filling in any knowledge gaps. The result is not nearly as important as the thinking processes involved in discussing content and deciding upon how to organize it. No two maps will be the same. (Santa, 1996)
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