Clustering,+Webbing,+Mapping

Clustering, Webbing, Mapping By: Steven Martinez

 About the Strategy:  Students, in a large group, small groups, or individually, begin with a word circled in the center, then connect the word to related ideas, images, feelings etc. Prewriting or INTO strategy.

 Benefits from Clustering, Webbing, Mapping:
 * Helps organize thoughts and new information
 * Helps visual learners
 * Allows the students to make connections
 * Easy way to compare and contrast
 * Further their knowledge on a topic
 * Can be used for vocabulary
 * Induces students to recall prior knowledge and generate new ideas related to the compared items.
 * Can be used for all students.

 Circle Map



 Double Cell (Compare and Contrast)

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Describe and compare attributes and characteristics of two items, things, people, places, events or ideas

<span style="color: #014437; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">My Activity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I paired up students together
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then they were to complete a double cell map about each other.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They were asked to write at least one thing they had in common and one thing they didn't have in common.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then on a nice lined paper they wrote about what they learned about each other.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">First sentence is to introduce who their partner is
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Second sentence is about what they have in common
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Last sentence is about what they don't have in common.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Once they completed the writing portion, I took a picture of each pair together.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Once the film is developed, on the nice lined paper t, I will glue the picture on the opening space.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The main purpose of this activity is a way to introduce comparing and contrasting because later on in the week they will be doing a double cell map about two characters from the book they are reading.

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