When you look at the title, headings, and repeated words, to identify this
What is the topic?
100
The thought process of this map is brainstorming, or defining in context.
What is a Circle Map?
100
This is the map you should use to organize information when you see these signal words:
kinds of
types of
categories
main idea and details
What is a Tree Map?
200
These are nouns that you can physically touch?
What are concrete nouns?
200
information that supports, explains, or proves the main idea
What are supporting ideas?
200
The first place you look for the main idea
What is the first sentence?
200
This is the thought process shown in a Bubble Map.
What is describing?
200
These are the five senses.
What are taste, touch, smell, sound, and sight?
300
This part of speech names ideas or states of being, and you cannot physically touch them.
What are abstract nouns?
300
the most important idea that the author wants you to know about the topic
What is the Main Idea?
300
If you don't find the main idea in the first sentence, you might find it here
What is the last sentence?
300
This is the map that shows a sequence of events.
What is a flow map?
300
These are the three things you do before reading
What is Preview, Set a Purpose, and Plan?
400
When you see these key words, you know that you can use this map to organize your information:
characteristics, traits, attributes, qualities, properties
What is a Bubble Map?
400
Examples and specific information that demonstrate the supporting ideas
What are details?
400
What you do if you can't find a directly stated main idea.
What is make an inference based on the supporting ideas and details.
400
This map shows cause and effect.
What is Multi-Flow?
400
These are the steps you take during reading.
What is Read with a Purpose and Make Connections?
500
When you see these signal words, you can use this map to organize your information:
discuss the consequences... describe the changes.. what were the effects...why did this happen?
What is a Multi-Flow?
500
This is similar to main idea, but we find it in fiction text.
What is theme?
500
When you use evidence from the text and/or background knowledge to make an educated guess about something that is not directly stated