What is it about?
Scrolls are a powerful tool for teaching the kinds of strategic reading strategies that students need in order to engage and comprehend longer, more challenging texts.
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Why is it important?
By creating a scroll with the text, students are more engaged and eager to get up and move around, making reading an interactive activity for the whole class. The scrolls provide a concrete, comprehensible view of the text. Students can see all of the text features, which helps them to see much more clearly the connection between text features and meaning.
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I hope that this article inspires teachers to look into how to incorporate the use of scrolls and textmapping into their classroom instruction. I have found that one of the most powerful skills a reader can use in accessing content area material is textmapping. You can find further information @ www.textmapping.org .
Cassia Niblack
Mobile County Public School District
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This page is a summary of: Seeing the Big Picture: Using Scrolls to Help Create Strategic Readers, The Reading Teacher, December 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1669.
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