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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps Professional DocAd lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps Professional Doc
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AdLit
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9th - 10th
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Story Maps

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Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story. Students learn to summarize the main ideas, characters, setting, and plot of an assigned reading.

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CCSS: Adaptable

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characters, main ideas, plot, setting, story maps, story mapping

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summarize, adlit, adlit.org, adolescent literacy, classroom literacy strategies

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RL.6.3 RI.6.3 RL.8.2 RL.7.3 W.5.9.a W.5.1.a RL.6.5 RI.5.6 RL.7.6 W.7.2.a RI.7.5 RL.5.3 W.6.2.a RST.6-8.5 RI.8.3 RI.9-10.3 RL.6.2 RL.8.3 RI.5.3 W.8.2.a

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