Whole Class Mind Map
Component: Guided Oral Practice
 
Rationale

• Teaches how to categorize information learned and to review facts
• Lowers affective filter
• Provides a link between Pictorial Input Chart and the Process Grid

 
Strategic Design

• Prewrite categories on Mind Map
• Place next to Pictorial Input Chart and Process Grid

 
Delivery 

• Students are in close proximity to chart
• Use Three Personal Standards and Literacy Awards
• Establish and articulate comprehensible language objective and/or content objective
• Chorally read the center of the Mind Map. Record topic in front of students
• Have students put heads together to discuss one category at a time
• Use choral calling of facts “just tell me”
• Sketch and bullet facts shared by students
• Use the same color for entire chart (release scaffolding)

 
ELD Support
Teacher prompt: Put your heads together and discuss the ________ (category)
Teacher prompt: Tell me about the __________, _________________
                                                                                 (category)
Student response: The__________has_____________________.
Student response: One fact about the _______is________________.
Student response: _____________is interesting since________________.
Student response: I am curious about __________________because_________________________.
Student response: The ______________of the
                                      (category)
_________________is _____________________.