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ERIC Number: EJ430535
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Middle East; Semantic Mapping