Semantic Webbing and Story Mapping

Semantic webbing is a way of organizing terms into categories and showing their relationship through visual displays that can help students integrate concepts.

Steps to be followed:

1. The teacher chooses the core question, which becomes the center of the web, to which the entire web is related.
2. The students answers are web strands; facts and inferences taken from the story and students' experiences are the strand supports; and the relationship of the strands to one another are strand ties.

Story Mapping provides mental representations of story structures that can aid reading comprehension.

References:
Roe, B. D. , Smith, S. H. & Burns, P. C. (2005) . Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools ( 9th ed.) . New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.