Amanda Amante

I am from Michigan.

This is my 6th year teaching.

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Married 4 ½ years

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The “Hook”

Establishes a baseline for learning by tapping schemaLowers affective filtersPrompts motivationSets the student up for success

“Thinking Maps provide a ‘conceptual net’ for capturing the essential information for any type of learning” (Buckner, 2009, p.16).Thinking Maps provide a guided path to organizing information.Thinking Maps allow levels of scaffolding to meet the needs of the writer.

The Hook (motivation)The Circle Map (writing ideas/info)The Tool (design for the writing assignment) describing, comparing/contrasting, classifying, whole to part relationships, sequencing, cause and effect, seeing analogies)Differentiation (First, next, last, etc.)

To define a concept, a word or an ideaTo brainstorm before writingTo diagnose prior knowledgeTo close a lesson Key words:

ContextContext cluesListDefineTell everything you knowIdentifyTell aboutDiscuss

This circle map and acrostic poem was a group effort with 1st graders.

This was completed by a 1st grade student on his own.

Students typed their poems with Kidspiration and were able to add pictures that went along with their poems.

At your table, discuss ideas for using circle maps. You will share these with the whole group.

Uses only adjectives and adjective phrases for describingUsed for vocabulary development and inferential thinkingKey words:

DescribeUse vivid languageAttributesCharacteristicsPropertiesAdjectivesQualities

Used for comparing and contrastingKey Words:

Compare/ContrastDiscuss similarities/differenceDistinguish betweenDifferentiate

Form a group of three to four people.In your group, think of ways you can use double bubble maps to support writing.You will have five minutes before you share your ideas.

Used for classifyingKey words:

ClassifySortGroupCategorizeTypes/Kinds ofList and elaborateTaxonomyGive details

Student sample. Students created tree maps with words and illustrations.

Form a group of three to four people.In your group, think of ways you can use a tree map to support writing.You will have five minutes before you share your ideas.

Use to sequence and orderKey Words:

Sequence, put in orderRecount/retellWhat happens nextCyclesPatternsProcessesChangeSolve multi-step problems

Form a group of three to four people.In your group, think of ways you can use flow maps to support writing.You will have five minutes before you share your ideas.

Shows cause and effectSupports the reasons that “cause” the writer to have this opinionDepicts a position or opinionServes as a plan for writingKey Words:

Causes and effectsPredict what would happen ifChangeIdentify motivesResults, outcomes, benefitsWhy

Form a group of three to four people.In your group, think of ways you can use multi-flow maps to support writing.You will have five minutes before you share your ideas.

Use to show part to whole relationshipsCan act as a checklistKey words:

Parts ofTake apartShow structurePhysical components

La hamburguesa

El pan

La hamburguesa/ la carne

El queso

El tomate

La lechuga

La cebolla

Jan. 23, 2011Dear Sally, I am having a birthday party and would really like you to come! It will be Friday, January 28th at my house. I live at 113 Holland Ave. Please let me know if you can come!Your friend,Emily

Jan. 23, 2001

Dear Sally,

I am having a birthday party and would really like you to come! It will be Friday, January 28th at my house. I live at 113 Holland Ave. Please let me know if you can come!

Your Friend

EmilyInvitation

Heading

Greeting

Body

ClosingSignature

Seeing analogiesKey words:

Identify the common relationshipGuess the ruleInterpret symbolsRatioSimileMetaphorAllegory

Is the word

La pizza La hamburguesa

El perro caliente

as as

Form a group of three to four people.In your group, think of ways you can use brace and bridge maps to support writing.You will have five minutes before you share your ideas.

Buckner, J. (2009). Path to proficiency for English language learners. Cary, NC: Thinking Maps.