This is a prepared power point lesson on textual aids.

lesson on textusl aids with illustrations.

1. Textual Aids

2. What did you write in the boxes? Questions: How did you come up with words/phrases and aswer? What can you say about textual aids based from your answers?

3.   -   How did you find the activity?    - What do you call the visual displays used in the previous activities?    -  Did it help you in organizing your answers and giving emphasis on what should be focused on?  Why or why not? -  What other tools do you know that may help you in understanding the given text better?

4. The Story of Daedalus and Icarus by: Nick Pontikis

5. Background Information : The story of Daedalus and Icarus is one of the most well-known Greek Myths. The Ancient Greeks believed that Daedalus was an exceptionally skilled craftsman who was responsible for inventing several carpentry tools (including the saw, the axe and the drill). In most versions of this story, Daedalus arrives safely in Sicily and mourns the loss of his child. In memory of his son, he names the spot where Icarus plunged to his death the Icarian Sea.

6. Textual aids  are tools/elements or materials that provide support and facilitate understanding of texts (whether fiction or nonfiction). These aids are most of the time, graphical outlines or images that gives a general idea of a certain topic. Aids in the form of pictures or graphs give the reader additional information to support that found in the text. Text aids are also useful for previewing text.

7. Textual aids help students understand and comprehend any story, subject, or topic. They give emphasis on what should be focused on. Moreover, the bas ic examples of textual aids are those words being highlighted, bolded, italicized, and added with charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, tables, pictures, etc. for better understanding of the text.  

8. Graphic organizers  are visual displays of key content information designed to benefit learners who have difficulty organizing information (Fisher & Schumaker, 1995). Graphic organizers are meant to help students clearly visualize how ideas are organized within a text or surrounding a concept. Graphic organizers provide students with a structure for abstract ideas.

9. Graphic organizers can be categorized in many ways according to the way they arrange information: hierarchical, conceptual, sequential, or cyclical (Bromley, IrwinDeVitis, & Modlo, 1995). Some graphic organizers focus on one particular content area. For example, a vast number of graphic organizers have been created solely around reading and pre-reading strategies (Merkley & Jeffries, 2000).

10. G ive the answers to the following questions by completing the concept map below .  

11.   I dentify specific graphic organizers and other textual aids shown in the images below.

12. C ompos e a three-paragraph essay describing how discovering personal challenges has helped them in understanding themselves better. The rubric is presented below.

13. Illustrate your answers to the questions below using the prescribed graphic organizer.   1.  In a short paragraph, describe how Daedalus planned to escape from the island prison of Crete. (Use Flow Diagram/Sequence Chart)   2.  Which events in the myth could have happened in real life?   (Use Concept Map) 3.  Compare and contrast   the personal challenges experienced by Daedalus and Icarus in the story and your personal experiences/challenges. (Use Venn Diagram)   4.  If you had access to building resources and materials, how would you design a flying machine to help you escape from the island prison of Crete? (Use Main Idea and Details Chart)