I made this when I was teaching students how to approach reading in a literature class that focused on the short story.
I am not usually a visual person, but more of an audio learner (charts make me queasy). That said, the essence of this “map” is that it starts by looking at the story in the broadest sense and moves down to the narrower, more detailed aspects of the story.   It moves from genre to structure to language.
By posting it here, I suppose I am asking what it leaves out. Â Should a discussion-based literature course examine a story in a more encompassing and maybe effective way?
This is how I tend to read. Â How do you read? How do you teach your students to read?
Nora Bonner 