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Armstrong, James O. – 1993
One way that teachers can assist students to learn from their textbooks is through the use of verbal-spatial representations of text structure. This report offers teachers and teacher educators information about learning to make idea maps for instructional use with elementary science texts. Idea maps, which are verbal-spatial representations of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Graphic Organizers