Story Mapping Tool is designed to help teachers and students in prewriting and post reading activities. It contains four key elements of the story together with their graphic representations mainly : Character Map, Conflict Map, Resolution Map, and Setting Map.
"The Graphic Map is designed to assist teachers and students in reading and writing activities. The organizer focuses on charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day, month, year, or life, or scenes in a play. The Graphic Map creates a graphic representation of these high and low points that displays related images and descriptions. The interactive can be used as a prewriting activity, as students map ideas for an autobiography; as a postreading activity, as students map the significance of events in a story; and as a reflection and assessment activity, as students map the high and low points of their inquiry process."
"This lesson uses the four modalities of reading (reading, writing, listening,
and speaking) on a math word problem to bridge the gap between reading and math.
After a read-aloud from the book Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane
Smith, students create their own word problems with answers. Students solve each
other's problems. As they reread the word problems, fluency and comprehension
increase. Finally, students use the skills they've learned creating word
problems to complete a crossword puzzle. As students read the math concept words
presented in the
puzzle and write the correct answers, their reading and
writing math vocabulary skills increase."