The effects of story map teaching based on dual coding theory on story analysis and writing

In this study, the effects of story map teaching based on the Dual Coding Theoryon story analysis and writing were investigated at the fifth grade level. In addition,experimental design with pretest-postest control group was modeled on.This study was conducted in 2009-2010 academic year with 40 fifth gradestudents. The creation story and narrative texts for students to develop writing skillswith instruction designed according to the Dual Coding Theory has been applied to theexperimental group (n=20). The control group (n=20) have continued to the normalteaching process. In this study, story maps, narrative texts, `Story Map Analysis GradedScoring Key? and `Narrative Writing Graded Scoring Key? were analysed. In addition, ttest and content analysis techniques were used to analyse the data.The results revealed that experimental group had higher scores both in preparingstory map skills and writing narrative text skills. There were no significant increase inthe control group.Keywords; Dual Coding Theory, story map, narrative text