Ok, now how
about a
RELEVANT
connection?
Get Inside their Brains!
Go deeper!
Metacognition Through Thinking Maps
Reverse, Reverse!
Everybody clap
your hands!
Visualization
Condense the boxes in the
middle of a flow map multiple times til it's a concise version of their original retell. Like this!
Tired of asking "Did you see the
movie in your head?"
Anybody got a student that thinks
summarizing means retelling?
Verbatim? In character?
Make a Flow Map
of Your Thinking
- Read a passage (So FUN! NOT!!)
- Stop and give time to think (wait, I'm supposed to think when I read?)
- Have students make a flow map of their thinking (Wait, you mean I'm supposed to think, like, the WHOLE time?)
- Classify their thoughts (Um, there's different kinds?)
More than just
random guessing.
Reflect
Connections
With Thinking Maps?
Is this really necessary?
Oh my gosh, is Scandal on tonight?
How can I
apply one
of these tomorrow?
Tell your
neighbor one
a-ha or question you have...
Tree Map to put
helpful and not
helpful connections