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  2. National Map Reading Week - Wikipedia

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    National Map Reading Week is an awareness campaign originally created by the Ordnance Survey, Britain's National Mapping Agency. It runs annually in the third week of October. [1] The goal of the awareness week is to increase public use of maps and mapping services. [2]

  3. Semantic mapping (literacy) - Wikipedia

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    Semantic mapping or semantic webbing, in literacy, is a method of teaching reading using graphical representations of concepts and the relationships between them. See also. Vocabulary development; References

  4. Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy - Wikipedia

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    During Barbara Bush's time as second lady, while her husband was vice president of the United States, she took an interest in literacy issues.She had previously coached her son, Neil, in reading, who was later diagnosed with dyslexia, and believed in family-based approaches to reverse illiteracy trends. [2]

  5. Programme for the International Assessment of Adult ...

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    Literacy is a prerequisite for developing one's knowledge and potential and participating in society. The literacy domain in PIAAC includes tasks such as reading and understanding a drug label or a brief newspaper article. In addition, there are tasks that involve digital media, such as reading an online job posting.

  6. Graphic organizer - Wikipedia

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    In the classroom, this hierarchical organization was used by the teacher as a pre-reading strategy to show relationships among vocabulary. Its use later expanded for not only pre-reading strategies but for supplementary and post-reading activities. It was not until the 1980s that the term graphic organizer was used. [7]

  7. Visual learning - Wikipedia

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    Visual learning is a learning style among the learning styles of Neil Fleming's VARK model in which information is presented to a learner in a visual format. Visual learners can utilize graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and other forms of visual stimulation to effectively interpret information.

  8. Orienteering - Wikipedia

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    Hikers described their orienteering activity and made suggestions on how to improve the teaching of orienteering and orienteering practices. [54] A central problem is map reading skills and understanding the imprecision of maps as a scaled down abstraction of an area at a single point in time. Hikers unused to orienteering often lack these ...

  9. Romer - Wikipedia

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    This allows access to the map such that the location could be marked with a pencil if using the reference card in reverse having been given a grid reference to start with. They are used in many types of land navigation and map reading, to give a more accurate grid reference than one just estimated by eye from the grid lines on the map.