Story Impressions
Story Impressions is an instructional strategy that arouses curiosity and allows students to anticipate text content. The strategy introduces significant terms and concepts to students before they encounter them in an assignment. Story impressions uses clue words associated with the setting, character, events, or key terms in a text to help readers write their own versions of the story prior to reading. Fragments from the text, in the form of clue words or phrases enable readers to form an overall impression of how the characters and events interact in the story. The clue words or phrases are chosen directly from the story and are sequenced with arrows or lines to form a descriptive chain. The chain of clue words triggers impressions about the text content. Students then write a text prediction that anticipates what will happen in the story or what the textbook will say.
Story Impression Strategy In Steps | |
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Sample Story Impression for The Wretched Stone | |
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Example for Earth Science | |
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Example for History | |
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