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This T/TAC W&M Considerations Packet focuses on how to make the most out of graphic organizers for instruction. Visual displays and representations of information, commonly called graphic organizers, have become standard practice in most educational settings.
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The graphic organizers address both narrative and informational text. Topics range from essential story elements, to informational text structures, to a framework that facilitates comparing and contrasting text in three different mediums. All of the organizers are designed to support students’ thinking.
Graphic organizers are visual thinking tools that help learners organize information. Graphic organizers help learners make connection between concepts and information they are learning and can increase student comprehension and increasing student independence (Finnegan & Mazin, 2016).
Graphic organizers have the ability to “help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers within the class to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.” http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task. Graphic organizers are also sometimes referred to as knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, cognitive organizers, advance organizers, or concept diagrams.
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer 1 Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer 2 Concept Definition Map Graphic Organizer 3 Drawing Conclusions Graphic Organizer 4 Identifying Author’s Purpose Graphic Organizer 5 Main Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer 6 Making Inferences Graphic Organizer 7 Summarizing Graphic Organizer 8
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