Story Map
Overview
A story map visually highlights and organizes important elements of a text to support deeper reading comprehension.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
Watch how this elementary teacher uses a story map while she is reading aloud with a small group. By using this visual map to orient students to pay attention to the characters and setting in the book, she guides their focus and supports their comprehension of important story elements.
Design It into Your Product
Learn how a digital product, such as Kidspiration, can allow learners to create complex story maps to visualize and enhance their learning. Through the creation process, learners sort and organize information from a text into meaning with a dynamic graphic organizer.
Additional Resources
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Factors Supported by this Strategy
More External Memory Aids Strategies
Easy access to common words promotes sight word recognition as students see the words repeatedly.
Rhyming, alliteration, and other sound devices reinforce language development by activating the mental processes that promote memory.
Creating patterns for remembering classroom processes, narrative structures, etc. supports memory development.
Providing instructions in multiple formats allows students to activate different cognitive skills to understand and remember the steps they are to take.
Cards with strategies for managing emotions help students remember how to act when faced with strong feelings.
A word wall helps build Vocabulary for reading fluidity.
