Graphic Organizer help students contruct meaning. The graphic organizer can be used with any book and across all grade levels. Teachers can use them to assess their students understanding of what they are reading, observe their thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or indepently.
What is a graphic organizer?
A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts terms, and or ideas within a learning tasks. Graphic organizers are also sometimes referred to as knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, cognitives organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagrams.
Some skills that as teachers we can develop are
- creative and crical thinking
- relation and contend comprehensio
- theme interaction
- ideas concept
- vocabulary expansion
- Knowledge construction
- summarize reading
Types of Graphic Organizers
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/
The graphic organizer are used for different purposes:
1) Organizer patterns
- organizational outline
- idea web
- cyclical
- Venn diagram
- overlapping concepts
- cause - effects
- Timaline
2) Reading Comprehension
- KWL chart
- Author Tool
- What's the main ideas
3) Story elements:
A. Character analysis
- character sheet & traits list
- character comparison sheet
B. Plot
- Ploy diagram
- Plot sheet and conflict list
- Problem & solution diagram
- Follow the clues
C. Setting
- Setting stage
- Setting comparison
D. Seguence
- Seguence of events
- Story maps
- Story traits
E. Assessment
- Reading record
- Independent reading contract
- Teacher-student reading conference form
- Checklist for strategies students/before reading
- Checklist for strategies students/while reading
- Checklist for strategies students/after reading
Why is important to use graphic organizer?
It's important because it help to visualize concept and vocabulary, is a tool to development crical thinking, it help integrate the preview knowledge of the reading, and it help students to organize, process, remember new information. Teachers can use sofwear to create their on graphic organizer for understanding.
Resources:http://http//images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=images%20of%20graphic%20organizers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://http//www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_go.html
