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Name
Graphic Organizers
Description
Graphic organizers, frames, and various kinds of maps/webs are tools that assist students with organizing, comprehending, recalling, and representing knowledge and texts. Frames and graphic organizers are also referred to as thinking frames/maps, concept frames/maps/organizers, webs, charts, tables, mind maps, and semantic maps. Graphic organizers allow students to think about information and ideas in different ways.
Purposes
- [Statement] In order to plan for instruction and assessment think about your learners' needs and your goal. What is your purpose for using Graphic Organizers? [Cluster] - [Statement] To clarify and extend understanding of a variety of texts (Clarify and Extend- Cluster 1.2): Students reorganize ideas and information in various ways according to purpose and audience. [Cluster] Cluster 1.2- Clarify and Extend - [Statement] To clarify and extend understanding (Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing- Cluster 2.3): Students use graphic organizers to map the key characteristics of various text forms. [Cluster] Cluster 2.3- Comprehending: Reading/Listening/Viewing - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to plan and focus an inquiry (InquiryCluster 3.1): Students use an inquiry plan to identify and focus information needs for research. [Cluster] Cluster 3.1- Inquiry - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to organize and record information (Inquiry- Cluster 3.3): Students organize information into categories using webbing, graphic organizers, etc. [Cluster] - [Statement] To demonstrate ability to generate and organize ideas (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.1): Students use appropriate graphic organizers for their oral, written, and visual texts. [Cluster] Cluster 4.1- Composing: Writing /Speaking/ Representing
Specific Learning Outcomes LICT Descriptors How To Do
Related Information
- 1. Model how graphic organizers can be used to acquire and explain a concept help students recall and organize their thinking assist students with review of learned information and as a study reference when preparing for tests. - 2. Model the use of a variety of graphic organizers to organize the same information. - 3. Gradually, have students select or modify graphic organizers to best suit their needs. Teach and model the use of one graphic organizer at a time (Note: It takes Š 2007 Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Created with Curriculum Navigator, - Page 1 -
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approximately 6-8 weeks for students to internalize and apply a new strategy independently.) Variations
Compare and Contrast: Compare and contrast is a common way of thinking when choices need to be made or conclusions reached about how things or ideas are similar and different. Compare and Contrast Frame Compare and Contrast Concept Frame: This frame allows students to graphically display their understandings of a subject using examples, characteristics, what is it like/unlike, illustrations, and a definition. Concept Frame Concept Frame Sample: Volume-Grade 5 Student Sample: Paragraph Concept Frame Concept Map / Information Map/ Mind Map / Thinking Map / Word Cluster / Word Web: These organizers have a free-flow form and begin with a topic or central idea placed in the middle of the page. Lines (stems) leading outward from the central concept indicate various aspects of or connections to the central idea. Additional information may be recorded on each stem and may be easily rearranged multiple times. Mapping helps students to see the natural, non-linear relationships among their ideas, feelings, and images on a given subject. Concept Organizers: Concept organizers are used to activate prior knowledge, to acquire knowledge, and to apply and extend knowledge. Concept Organizers Concept Overview Frame: The Concept Overview frame allows students to study concepts from different perspectives enabling them to see the big picture and to develop precision in defining terms and discussing characteristics. Concept Overview Concept Relationship Frame: The Concept Relationship frame allows student to categorize the text as problem/solution, either/or, compare/contrast, or cause/effect. This frame may be more appropriate for Middle and Senior Years students. Concept Relationship Frame Explanation Planner: This frame is used as a planning sheet to help organize the steps in making or explaining something. Explanation Planner Explanation Planner Fact-Based and Issue-Based Article Analysis: These frames are used to collect and organize information and points of view from newspapers, magazines, and other expository media. Fact-Based Article Analysis
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Issue-Based Article Analysis Fact-Based and Issue-Based Article Analysis Frayer Plus Concept Builder: This frame allows students to graphically revise their understanding of the subject on a frame using essential characteristics/non-essential characteristics, examples-non-examples, a drawing or diagram and a definition. See Success for all Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, A Resource for Kindergarten to Senior 4 Schools, p 6.66 (No electronic Š permission for Attachment 20 BLM 6.113). Herringbone/Fishbone: Herringbone/Fishbone is an organizing frame that students use to record information, to make notes, and to assist them to remember important information and key facts, including key concepts and vocabulary. Herringbone/Fishbone Herringbone/Fishbone Information Frame: This frame helps students make notes from text or from a video or film. Information Frame Knowledge Chart: This frame is a variation of KWL where "Need to Know" is substituted for "Want to Know". Knowledge Chart KWL: The acronym KWL stands for what students Know, what they Want to know, and what they Learned. KWL LAPS: LAPS is an instructional frame and an acronym for active listening (Listen, Ask yourself, Picture, Summarize). This strategy helps students organize, understand, interpret, and evaluate information. Do Your Laps LAPS Picture Cue Frame: The Picture Cue frame is a sheet divided into small squares where students sketch simple pictures in each box throughout a video or oral presentation. Pictures may be cut apart, sentences added, pictures with sentences grouped into paragraphs, and then made into a complete report. This removes writing from the notemaking process and allows concentration on selection of important facts from video or oral presentations. Pyramid Diagram: The Pyramid Diagrams is an organizer that requires students to focus their learning to sort the main idea(s) from supporting details and to consider the information details in their order of importance. Information from a Pyramid Diagram may be used to write a summary paragraph which addresses a focus question. Pyramid Diagram Sample Pyramid Diagram Semantic Feature Analysis: This frame is a visual reminder of how concepts are the same and different. Students analyze vocabulary by identifying the
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key characteristics and then compare the characteristics with other familiar concepts. Semantic Analysis Seven-Step Knowledge Chart: This frame is a variation of KWL. Seven-Step Knowledge Chart KWL Step Map: This diagram shows steps in a sequence or chronological order Step Map Story Map: Story maps are graphic organizers that students use to analyze forms and genres to understand the structure and key elements of stories. Story Maps T-Chart: A T-Chart is a simple graphic organizer shaped like the letter "t" that provides a way of organizing two different ideas or concepts. T-Chart Timelines: Timelines generally consist of a vertical or horizontal line, with graduated marking points to indicate years, decades, centuries, or other periods of time. Timelines Three-Point Approach: This frame allows students to write a definition, draw a picture or diagram, and write a synonym or example of key words and concepts. Refer to Success for all Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, A Resource for Kindergarten to Senior 4 Schools pages 6.36 (No electronic © permission for Attachment 9 BLM 6.101). Sample Three-Point Approach for Words and Concepts Three Point Approach Sample: Classifying Triangles by Sides Venn: Venn Diagrams are used to organize ideas and show relationships (similarities and differences) between concepts/topics using circles. Venn Diagram Venn Diagrams Word Cycle: Word Cycle is a graphic organizer where students build a cycle, identifying the relationship between adjoining words. Students may make many alternative word connections, but must justify their choices for adjoining words. Refer to Success for all Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, A Resource for Kindergarten to Senior 4 Schools pages 6.31-6.32 (Attachment 7 BLM 6.99 no electronic © permission) and to Kindergarten to Grade 8 English Language Arts: A Foundation for Implementation, "Strategies that make a Difference" page 216. Math Word Cycle Sample (Grade 3 Word Map: This frame allows students to enter a word, the category to which it belongs, some key properties or characteristics, three examples or illustrations, and comparisons which may be synonyms or antonyms/non-examples or people associated with new vocabulary. Refer to Kindergarten to Grade 8 English Language Arts: A Foundation for Implementation, "Strategies that Make a Difference" pages 218. No electronic
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Š permission for template. Word Map Trapezoid Sample Assessment / Think Abouts
Offer descriptive feedback based on criteria/goals. Record focused observations on students' independent choice of, or creation of, graphic organizers to organize thoughts and ideas. Focused Observation Form Focused Observation Form Sample Orally guide/facilitate reflection in journals or with the Reflection Metacognition Y-chart (e.g., Graphic organizers help me...because ...; Evidence of this is...). Reflection Metacognition Reflection Self-Assessment
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