Visualize Your Understanding

Ann Shlapobersky

Eric Cohen Books – ETAI: Eilat 2012

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What will we do?

• Define what is a graphic organizer• Discuss the purpose of a graphic organizer• Look at samples of graphic organizers• Activate you minds… • Discuss how it helps the reader/learner

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What are Graphic Organizers?

• visual learning tool that uses symbols to express ideas and concepts

• knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, cognitive organizers, advanced organizers or concept diagrams

• “form a powerful visual picture of information and allow the mind ‘to see’ undiscovered patterns and relationships.” Instructional Strategies Online

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When teaching a text we…

• Pre-reading comprehension activities– title– pictures– proper nouns

• Teach vocabulary• Read to them, stop, ask questions• And…..

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How do I use a graphic organizer?

• Before reading the text– elicits prior knowledge (what you already know)– helps discover what else you want to know

• While reading– organizes information

• After reading– helps interpret what was read– identifies relationships between ideas/concepts– connects concepts– recognizes new knowledge

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How do they help the students?

– organize their ideas and let them ‘visualize’ connections between the ideas

– gain a better understanding of the underlying concepts – give structure the most essential ideas– improve reading and vocabulary knowledge and

understanding

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Types of Graphic Organizers

Character MapConflict MapCluster/Word Describing WheelE-ChartEssay MapFact and OpinionFive W's ChartFlow ChartFour-Column ChartGarden GateGoal-Reasons WebIce-Cream Cone

Idea RakeIdea WheelInverted TriangleISP Chart KWL ChartKWS ChartLadderObservationChartPersuasion Map Planning ChartProblem-Solution Chart

SandwichSense ChartSequence ChartSpider MapStep-by-Step ChartStory Map 1Story Map 2Story Map 3 T-ChartTicktacktoeTime LineTime-Order ChartTree ChartVenn Diagram

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Looking at a few….

• KWL - knows (K), wants to know (W), and has learned (L)• KWHL - knows (K), wants to know (W), how to find (H) and has learned (L)

• Venn Diagram – compare and/or contrast

• Persuasive Map - formulate ideas for a persuasive argument: goal, reasons to support it and conclusion

• Sequence Chart - clarify the sequence of events or to infer cause and effect relationships

• Story Map – defines setting, time, place, characters, conflict, events and resolution

• Cause and Effect – cause to effects• Mind Map – organize thoughts or ideas

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Examples

• Amina and the Animal (Our World Stories)• Flowers are Red by Harry Chapin(Mind Matters)• Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins (Literature

for 4pt and 5th Option 1)

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Blubb.us – Mind Mapping

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Available from the Web

• Think Technology• Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension (Scholastic)• Graphic Organizers (Education Oasis)• Story Map (ReadWriteThink)• Interactive Graphic Organizers• Bubbl.us• Graphic Organizers Maker• Graphic Organizers (Education Place)• 2Learn.ca (search ‘graphic organizer”)

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Reading about….

• Graphic Organizers (Teacher Tap)• How To Use Graphic Organizers To Enhance Learning• Instructional Strategies Online• Using Graphic Organizers as Study Guides• Graphic Organizers

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Thank you

ann@ecb.co.il