Textmapping Exercise: Mapping a Textbook Chapter

These are your only instructions. If you have any questions which are not covered by these instructions, use your judgement and make a decision that makes sense to you. You have two tasks:

1. Make a scroll from the photocopies provided.
2. Map it.

You have 20 minutes to complete these tasks. We will then discuss the process and your experience of it.

Materials: One set of photocopied pages from a textbook chapter. One plastic bag containing masking tape, glue stick, and 7 colored markers.

Instructions

1. Make the scroll:
   • Arrange the textbook pages in their proper sequence.
   • Use glue stick to assemble pages into a scroll.
   • Use masking tape to hang the scroll on the wall.
2. Map it:
   • Red or Orange marker: Divide the text into three sections: introduction, main body, and review.
   • Brown or Grey marker: Box the illustrations.
   • Black marker: Box the textstream in the main body of the text.
   • Green marker: Circle each heading and box its corresponding section. Mark only headings (see "blue marker" instruction, below).
   • Blue marker: Circle each sub-heading and box its corresponding sub-section.
   • Purple or Pink marker: Box all questions in the main body of the text.
   • Yellow marker: Highlight the vocabulary words in the main body of the text.