Graphic+Organizers

=**Graphic Organizers**= By: Ashley Valenzona
 * ... are visual frames used to represent and organize learning information. They engage student's visual intelligence, stretch students' thinking skills and promote active learning.**

__**Why Use Them?**__
 * helps facilitate higher level thinking skills that include: analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, relating and developing concepts, categorizing, sequencing and comparing and contrasting.
 * helps with comprehension by making content connections to see how information is related.
 * helps facilitate long term memory. Information is provided in a short, easy-to-remember way.
 * Students tend to remember more what they see and draw than what they hear and write.
 * helps with brain based learning
 * helps students process and store information by searching for patterns and organization
 * Multiple Intelligences- engages with four intelligences simultaneously
 * Verbal/ Linguistic- student select key words and phrases
 * Logical/ Mathematical- deals with hierarchy, sequence, part/whole relationships, concept development and cycles
 * Visual/ Spatial- content is in an organized visual format
 * Naturalist- different organizers engage in different facets of the naturalist intelligence, such as: categorizing, classifying, sequencing, attention to attributes, comparing and contrasting.

__**When to Use Them...**__
 * While teaching a lesson!
 * Use them as you teach. Display the graphic organizer on chart paper or the overhead and fill it it as you go.
 * Cooperative Learning!
 * Have students work in pairs or teams to fill in or create their own organizers. Make sure that the students are taking turns so that no one feels left out.
 * Example: Have teams brainstorm their ideas and compare them with other teams.
 * Reflection and Assessment!
 * After a lesson, have students create graphic organizers to summarize and reflect on what they learned
 * Mind Maps are key for big concepts
 * Collect organizers and authentically assess their learning and understanding of the lesson
 * Pre-Writing!
 * Brainstorming will help illustrate their ideas before writing
 * Bulletin Boards!
 * Have a handful of graphic organizers on display so that students can make reference to them

__**Examples of Graphic Organizers...**__
 * Sequence Organizers
 * Chains
 * Ladder
 * Cycle Graph
 * Line Graphs
 * Cartoon and Picture Strip
 * Concept Development Organizers
 * Mind Maps
 * Word Webs
 * Concept Maps
 * 5W Chart: Who? What? Where? When? Why?
 * Senses Chart: Looks, Tastes, Feels, Smells, Sounds.
 * KWL Chart: What I __KNOW__, What I __WANT__ to know and What I __LEARNED.__
 * Compare and Contrast Organizers
 * Venn Diagrams
 * T-Charts
 * Compare and Contrast Chart
 * Evaluation Organizers
 * PMI Chart: Plus, Minus and Interesting
 * Plus/ Minus T-Chart: Positive/ Like/ Agree vs. Negative/ Dislike/ Disagree
 * Scales: (1) Strongly Disagree to (5) Strongly Agree
 * Categorize/ Classify Organizers
 * Category Chart
 * Tree Chart
 * Pyramid Chart
 * Relational Organizers
 * Fish Bone
 * Pie Chart

= [|SDAIE Strategy- Graphic Organizers] =

__**A great FREE reference for teachers...**__ [|Super Teacher Worksheets]