Graphic ORganizer
Graphic organizers are visual displays of thinking. They can be used throughout the activating, acquiring, and applying portions of lessons. Through graphic organizers, students make their thinking visible and represent abstract information in a more concrete form, depict relationships between ideas, organize ideas, and relate new information to prior knowledge.
Graphic organizers include two broad categories: mind maps and concept frames.
Mind maps are used for non-linear brain storming and their purpose is to help students put their ideas on paper and represent connections with circles and lines. Thehy do not form a predetermined form.
Concept frames also highlight connections between ideas, but the the frame is predetermined. (E.g. chain of event frame [example below], comparison and contrast matrix, problem and solution outline).
Various Graphic Organizers: http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm
Steps:
The steps involved in using graphic organizers will vary based on the type of organizer being used. However, always be sure to model the use of graphic organizers before expecting students to use them themselves Provide several different options of graphic organizers and allow students to choose what works best for them and their thinking style.
Possible Curricular Connections:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
1.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.3 Organize, Record and Assess
3.3.1 Organize information and ideas in order of priority according to topic and task requirements.
GLO 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
4.1 Generate and Focus
4.1.1 Experiment with several ways to generate ideas and focus a topic.
4.1.3 Identify and use a variety of organizational patterns in own oral, written, and visual texts; compose effective introduction and conclusions.
Graphic organizers include two broad categories: mind maps and concept frames.
Mind maps are used for non-linear brain storming and their purpose is to help students put their ideas on paper and represent connections with circles and lines. Thehy do not form a predetermined form.
Concept frames also highlight connections between ideas, but the the frame is predetermined. (E.g. chain of event frame [example below], comparison and contrast matrix, problem and solution outline).
Various Graphic Organizers: http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm
Steps:
The steps involved in using graphic organizers will vary based on the type of organizer being used. However, always be sure to model the use of graphic organizers before expecting students to use them themselves Provide several different options of graphic organizers and allow students to choose what works best for them and their thinking style.
Possible Curricular Connections:
GLO 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
1.2 Clarify and Extend
1.2.3 Structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding.
GLO 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, literary, and media texts.
1.1 Use Strategies and Cues
2.1.2 Use a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas.
GLO 3: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information.
3.3 Organize, Record and Assess
3.3.1 Organize information and ideas in order of priority according to topic and task requirements.
GLO 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.
4.1 Generate and Focus
4.1.1 Experiment with several ways to generate ideas and focus a topic.
4.1.3 Identify and use a variety of organizational patterns in own oral, written, and visual texts; compose effective introduction and conclusions.