Improving reading comprehension of disabled readers through semantic mapping

Abstract

Using semantic maps (webs or net works) is a popular technique among reading teachers. The maps improve children's reading comprehension by showing them not only how vocabu lary words are related to each other in some conceptual hierarchy, but also how the ideas in texts are organized in associative ways. Map ping is a cognitive strategy; it neces sitates that the teacher conceptually organize the text for student use. As this article will show, particular map organizations and the relationships suggested through connective links express nonverbally the relationships of parts to the whole and the whole to its parts. A study of children in our reading clinic, using several types of

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