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1 Google Document:

- Various Graphic Organizers & Project Rubrics

My Thinking Maps are usually created on Keynotes and projected onto the screen, but we have also turned them into paper graphic organizers to help guide our students during a lesson. As students get more and more familiar with the Thinking Maps, we try to get them to be more independent, so that students are able to draw them on their own. Our goal is that by the time they leave our school, each child can use these Thinking Maps and apply them correctly and appropriately to any given scenario (real-life or academic) and understand the value behind certain maps working better with certain standards by just recalling the visual in their head. For example, a Bubble Map is used for describing nouns using adjectives, a Tree Map is used to classify and categorize objects, a Flow Map is used for sequencing events, a Double-Bubble is used to compare and contrast different things, a Bridge Map is used with analogies. To help support with the visuals, my school had purchased the Thinking Maps Program and it came with large posters that are displayed on the wall at all times in the front of the room.

1 Google Drawing:

- Thinking Map (Flow Map) to illustrate "Steps for Completion"

The Google Drawing below is a visual representation of the "Steps for Completion" for the Story Jumper publishing process. This illustration is an important part of the publishing process because it allows each student to see what needs to be completed in order to meet the Story Jumper Rubric requirements. This picture diagram also acts as a simple "How to" when trying to remember the steps for completion in sequential order.

STORY JUMPER RUBRIC

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