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Ch. 7 -- Picture This: Graphic Organizers in the Classroom, GRAPHIC…
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS FACILIATE COMPREHENSION
- enables students to be consciously aware of what needs to be done in order to support one's own learning; planning and executing strategies; and reflecting on effectiveness
- assists students in understanding how concepts and experiences connect to one another (like combining lab work, field work, and class work into one composite experience)
- great assistance to students with learning disabilities
- best used as a post-- activity (post-reading, post-discussion, post-viewing, etc. because you need content to put into the graphic organizer in the first place)
- success with a graphic organizer lies in the student's ability to match the graphic organizer to the content of the text
- they are not the end product; they are an intermediary between experiences and should lead to something else -- what will they use their organizer for?
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best used processes, event sequences, and time lines
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words compared in a table format -- best used to compare terms to each other on different aspects, begins with a term defined and discussed
- How will students use the tool to create something new?
- Introduce graphic organizers only if they're new to the students (a diagnostics test at the beginning of the year?)
- model how to use a graphic organizer
- show examples of organizers you've made for your own use
- give them questions to guide them to important info in the text
- when students are more practiced, give them a new text and ask them to make a graphic organizer for it
- give students many opportunities to practice with them in pairs to work towards independent use
- provide premade standard organizers for students to use
- use story mountains for plot, setting, and characters
- can combine a story mountain with a concept map to make a hybrid
- can use a matrix to compare aspects of characters in a story
- graphic organizers as a post-reading activity, using flow diagrams to recreate the sequence of a story to see what sequence reveals to the reader
- using graphic organizers to organize what they already knew and how what they are learning connects to what they already know to see how math builds itself from the ground up
- compare and contrast between mathematical theories
- a matrix to compare shapes in geometry