Spider Charts
Overview
To help the child gather the main points of any text they’re reading for classwork.
Planning and Organizational Skills
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: To help the child gather the main points of any text they’re reading for classwork.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: Teach the child that upon reading any text, they should be looking for the title and the main idea. Help them look for the key-words and phrases and underline/highlight to support memory recall. Ask them to follow the spider chart of 6 fundamental questions: “who? when? what? where? why? how?” or for older children, it could be more elaborate if it is a storyline (shown below). Then ask the child to revisit the text if any questions follow the text, and repeat the steps.
FOR PRINTABLES
ACTIVITY MATERIALS
1 | Printed card |
IMPORTANT NOTES FOR PRACTITIONER
Ask the child to read through the questions before and after finishing the text to help them make an idea of which keywords to use.
Help the child look for underlying ideas as well as surface interpretation of text.