Mind Map

Mind Map

1. Teaching and Learning Question: How do you prompt a child to make connections and visualize after reading a text?

   • Make the text personal and relatable to the reader
     • Perhaps try using a family/cultural interview with the students in order to help them make connections to texts
   • "What does this text/poem make you think of in your own life?"
   • "Does this text remind you of any other texts that you have read?"
   • "Has something like this ever happened to you?"
   • "What does this remind you of?"
   • "This text reminds me of___________. Can you think why?"
     • form of direct modeling for the student to use
   • "What kinds of things could you feel in your mind as you were reading this story?"
   • "What do the characters look like in the story? How are they dressed?"
   • "When we read, we often make pictures in our minds about what is happening in the story."
   • "What do you feel, see, hear, smell, taste in your mind as you read this text?"
   • Talk partners! Us the following prompt for visualizing: "Describe the pictures that you each created in your minds? What did you like about your own and your partner's mind pictures?"
     • Can also use talk partners to make connections across a text. Use the following prompt: "What does this remind you of in your own life? Now, share your ideas with a friend."
     • Think-pair-share method also applies here

2. Content Question: What is more beneficial to an English Language Learner in regards to reading: making connections or visualizing?

   • "I made a sand castle. One day, my friend touched a jellyfish at the beach. We thought it was a trash can."Younwoo made a text-self connection when prompted
     • Prompt: "What does this text make you think of in your own life?"
   • "Pokemon. I read a Pokemon book that good. I like this book." Younwoo made a text-text connection when prompted.
     • Prompt: "Does this text remind you of any other texts that you have read?"
   • "I can draw everything that the baby drew. I can copy it." Younwoo made a text-self connection when prompted.
     • Prompt: ""Has something like this ever happened to you?"
   • "We read a book about a boy drawing, but I don't remember the name. I like this one better. Younwoo made a text-text connection when prompted.
     • Prompt: "Does this story make you think of any other stories that you have read?"
   • "Being sticky. It is very wet." Younwoo made a text-self connection using the poem ("Mud") while responding to my prompting.
     • Prompt: "What does this poem make you think of in your own life?"
   • "Yes. I don't like dark and dinosaurs. I like dinosaurs but they are scary sometimes." Younwoo made a text-self connection when resounding to my prompt.
     • Prompt: "Have you ever felt scared like Hawk did? What makes you feel scared?"
   • "I feel the sand. I could feel the water, too." Younwoo made the visualization to the story "Sand Castles" when prompted.
     • Prompt: What kinds of things could you feel in your m ind as you were reading this story?"
   • "A baby boy. He was drawing. He used a purple crayon. I use every color crayon when I draw." Younwoo made a visualization when prompted.
     • Prompt: "What do the characters look like in this story? How are they dressed?"
     • I feel as if Younwoo also made a text-self connection during this visualization
   • "Sticky and wet!" Younwoo made a visualization based on my prompting as he played with a piece of clay. He used this clay to visualize how he thought that the mud felt in the poem called, "Mud."
     • Prompt: "Younwoo, can you tell me how you think the mud feels in this poem?"
   • "The dinosaurs are BIG! Some of them can be scary because of their big claws and mouth!" Younwoo made a visualization of dinosaurs after reading a text about them.
     • Prompt: "What do you think that these dinosaurs looked like? What do you see in your mind when you read this text?"
   • Younwoo responds to both making connection and visualization prompts with much elaboration
   • When making visualizations, Younwoo sometimes also makes text-self connections
   • making connections and visualizing are both deep structures