Example 1
One example of using a graphic organizer in a reading lesson could occur during a lesson on Main Idea and Details. The students could be partnered up with a peer and given a short story to read. After they have read this story, the students could then identify the main idea of the story and record it on the graphic organizer. Looking back into the story as needed, the students could then find and write down three of the details in the story that support their stated main idea. This graphic organizer would provide a visual representation of the student's thinking.
Example 3
Graphic organizers could also be used in the content area of science when the students are learning about observations and inferences. After teaching the students the differences between the two, the teacher could put a picture up on the board and have the students write down all of their observations in the graphic organizer. They could then write down an inference they made from the picture and draw lines connecting it to the observations that support it.
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Example 2
Another example of using the strategy of graphic organizers could occur in the content area of writing. The students could be learning on how to write and structure a paragraph. By using the hamburger graphic organizer (provided below), the students could write their topic sentence, three supporting sentences, and concluding sentence in the appropriate sections. The teacher could then explain how this organizer shows how the topic and concluding sentence should enclose the "meats"/insides of the burger, the supporting sentences.
Example 4
Another example of this strategy of graphic organizers being used could be in a history lesson. The students could be learning about World War I & II and asked to compare and contrast these two wars on a Venn diagram graphic organizer. The similarities between the two wars would go in the overlapping area of the two circles while the unique characteristics of each war would be written in their own side of the non-overlapping section of the circles. This would provide the students with an easily visible structure of the differences and similarities of World War I and II.
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This four minute video talks about the many types of graphic organizers and provides a verbal rationale as to why teachers should use them. There are also clips of students using graphic organizers during a lesson which provide an excellent visual example of what the use of these organizers looks like.
This picture is just one example of a graphic organizer that students can use to visually display their gained knowledge and comprehension of a story. It would help them learn the elements of stories as well.
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This short video is all about how teachers should use graphic organizers. It begins by explaining what a graphic organizer is and how it helps the students see their thinking. It also does a good job of simply explaining the many different uses of graphic organizers. Finally, it also states how they can be used as assessments and why they are more beneficial in this area than the typical assessments used.
This graphic organizer is just a simple Venn diagram that can be used to have students compare and contrast whatever they are learning about in reading, science, history, writing, and so forth.
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This graphic organizer provides a visually structure of the format of a paragraph. It would benefit students by helping them see how a paragraph should be organized and also gives them space to do so.
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