A concept map is a way visually organize your understanding of in formation. It help you to record ideas during reading and see the relationships among ideas,and distinguish between main ideas and supporting details.So it can be highly effective in helping you when struggling with reading and writing. concept map usually have word written on the lines that join the bubbles to show the relationships between items.They generally do not use color or pictures.They are ment to show the connections between ideas and yhe hierarchy of those ideas.