Students Search for Meaning in the Text through Semantic Mapping.

Antonacci, Patricia A.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Students Search for Meaning in the Text through Semantic Mapping.

Antonacci, Patricia A.

Social Education, v55 n3 p174-75,194 Mar 1991

Explains semantic mapping as a visual representation of knowledge that is useful for understanding underlying textbook concepts. Outlines steps for constructing a conceptual map with ninth grade students to be used as an aid in reading about peoples of the Middle East. Emphasizes student participation for effective semantic mapping. Provides examples of pre- and postreading semantic maps. (NL)

Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Geography Instruction, Grade 9, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Schemata (Cognition), Secondary Education, Semantics, Social Studies, Student Participation, Study Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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