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Concept Muraling: Dropping Visual Crumbs Along the Instructional Trail
Author(s) -
Farris Pamela J.,
Downey Portia M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.58.4.7
Subject(s) - mathematics education , representation (politics) , psychology , instructional design , foundation (evidence) , simple (philosophy) , teaching method , content (measure theory) , pedagogy , multimedia , computer science , philosophy , law , history , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , epistemology , politics , political science
Concept muraling is a direct instructional approach that visually represents the material to be taught. Using simple illustrations, the teacher presents an aural overview of the content area text to be studied in a form of visual representation. When used as a scaffolding technique, concept muraling can provide students with the basic concepts needed to comprehend content area text. For diverse learners and those with learning disabilities, it can be a foundation for other learning.