Lesson Planning Guides

The following lesson guides are currently available. As we add more, they will be listed here (added explanation below):

• Textbook Skills
  • Textbook Skills: Standard instruction set.
  • Textbook Skills: Unit structure and types of information.
  • Textbook Skills: Chapter structure and types of information.
  • Textmapping Exercise: Mapping a Textbook Chapter [http://whMappingExerciseTextbookChapter001.html]
  • Textmapping Exercise: Mapping a Textbook Chapter [http://whMappingExerciseTextbookChapter001.html]
  • [from Barbara Gonzales]
    • Instruction Set: Read 80|
      
    • Instruction Set: Read 90|
      
    • Instruction Set: Read 100
• Magazine Instruction Sets
  • Textmapping Exercise: Mapping a Magazine Article [http://www.textmapping.org/whMappingExerciseMagazineArticle001.html]
• Poetry exercise: "Afternoon on a Hill", by Edna St. Vincent Millay (4 document set); recommended for upper elementary through college.
  • Materials and Background [http://www.textmapping.org/millayScrollPages.pdf]
  • Instruction Set [http://www.textmapping.org/millayInstructions.pdf]
  • Millay's layout [http://www.textmapping.org/millayLayout.pdf]
  • Millay Biography [http://www.textmapping.org/bioMillay.pdf]
• Fiction: Two Books by Dr. Seuss (3 document set); recommended for high school and college level, with particular relevance to Post Cold War history.
  • Instructions: Two Books by Dr. Seuss [http://www.textmapping.org/seussInstructions.pdf]
  • Thinking Aloud about our Thinking [http://www.textmapping.org/thinkingAloudAboutThinking.pdf]
  • Biographical Notes: Drs. Seuss and Spock [http://www.textmapping.org/bioSeussSpock.pdf]

The content in the Lesson Guides section is going through a major expansion. We have found it unmanageable to try to keep this section running during this process.

All of this work is in response to user interest, and for that we are grateful. We truely appreciate your interest, as well as your offers to work with us to create new lesson guides. Read how you can collaborate with us.

We will try to bring this section back to full functionality as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.