The Threads of Reading Blog » thinking maps http://www.threadsofreading.com/blog Weaving the Threads of Reading in K-12 Classrooms Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:38:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Organizing Information and Linking Key Facts http://www.threadsofreading.com/blog/2010/01/27/organizing-information-and-linking-key-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=organizing-information-and-linking-key-facts http://www.threadsofreading.com/blog/2010/01/27/organizing-information-and-linking-key-facts/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:00:24 +0000 KTankersley http://threadsofreading.com/blog/?p=163 A great way for students to think about and organize what they are reading is to make a bubble map showing the main topics of the chapter and then listing linking information that belongs to each category as they find it in the text. I like to have kids use either Inspiration or my favorite, free, bubble making tool from  http://bubbl.us/ to have students build a relationship grid. Students put the topic in the center with linking bubbles for the sub-topics. As they find facts and information that relate to the sub-topics, they can either create additional linking bubbles or just put the key information under the topic heading. Students can quickly and easily see the relationships and linking information. Here is a sample grid that could be used on the topic of different animals. Students would create a different graph for each animal studied so that they could easily compare and contrast key features and traits. 

Content Relationship Graph

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