A Lesson in Organizing to Learn: Creating a Concept Map using Bubble.us

In my Reading Strategies class, we cover the topic of recognizing patterns of organization and using patterns to organize what is read into concept maps, outlines, summaries and other forms to aid comprehension and retention. Bubble.us is user friendly and is an excellent application to use to create the concept maps required for completion of this lesson on Organizing to Learn.

The Lesson: A process is composed of well defined steps. For instance, a numbered list is one of the ways to organize ideas so that you can understand them. A concept map is another way to organize ideas. A concept map can show sequence or directions. For example, we recently read about The Gentrification Process. The stages of the gentrification process could be represented using a concept map. (See Example)



Students are then given opportunity to create a concept map from an passage. Students are to watch for stages, as they read the passage, and then will create a concept map. The reading the students will use is on Chain Migration.

A Community of Readers: A Thematic Approach To Reading
Roberta Alexander with Jan Jarrell
Chapter 5: Patterns of Organization