GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: WHY AND WHAT FOR

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GRAPHICORGANIZERS WHY AND WHAT FOR?

• Adapted from various online and text resources

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Bibliography

• Payne, R. K. (1998). Learning Structures.
  Highlands, TX aha! Process, Inc.ISBN
  1-929229-41-0
• Beers, K. (2003). When Kids Cant Read What
  Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH
  Heinemann.ISBN 0-86709-519-9
• Bowman, S. L. (2005). The Ten-Minute Trainer
  150 Ways to Teach and Make it Stick! San
  Francisco, CA Pfeiffer.ISBN 13-978-0-7879-7442-
  8

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• Rationale The mind sorts data against patterns
  By teaching patterns w/in data, students can
  find what is important more quickly and
  accurately Payne (1998, p.53).

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• Using Graphic Organizers also helps teachers use
  chunking strategies to build memory.
• Students are more likely to maximize making
  connections between concepts.
• Teachers can work to maximize firsts and lasts
  within lessons.

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• Our students in summer school (and many during
  the school year) come from a demographic that can
  clearly benefit from these teaching strategies.
• Graphic organizers help dependent readers
  organize information and see relationships they
  might otherwise not see (Beers, 2003, p.194).

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• Bowman agrees w/ Payne and points out that using
  imagery is a powerful learning tool (2005,
  p.239).
• When you lecture without using any image-making
  method, learners are limited to processing the
  spoken information in the main language center of
  the thinking brain, while the other half sits
  pretty much idle (Bowman, 2005, p.239).

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• But when you include training methods that are
  image-rich, you not only make the information
  more interesting to the learner, you also make it
  more memorable (Bowman, 2005, p.239).

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Why Use Graphic Organizers?

• Some examples of imagery include Storytelling,
  anecdotes, metaphors, analogies, doodles,
  cartoons, photos, symbols, shapes, icons,
  movement, gestures, physical objects, videos,
  visual aids, graphic organizers, etc. (Bowman,
  2005, p.239).

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More Web Sites that Teach

• http//www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.jsp
  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
  Web Site English AND Spanish!
• http//t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspi
  ration_templates/ - Great Web Site w/ printable
  templates
• http//my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm -
  Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers PDF FORMAT
  THAT ALLOWS YOU TO TYPE IN YOUR OWN DATA
• http//www.pppst.com/clipart.html - GREAT
  collection of free clip art for creating your own
  graphic organizers

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More Web Sites that Teach

• http//www.inspiration.com/Examples/Inspiration -
  The Inspiration Web Site Create your own stuff!
• http//tinyurl.com/n542qt - A one-stop Web Site
  for teacher templates and resources for teaching
  w/ graphic organizers. Note that this is a
  cached site that may not have fully functioning
  links, but still has a lot of good information.
  For further searching on indexing of this site
  the original URL ishttp//www.nvo.com/ecnewlette
  r/graphicorganizers/

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CHUNK THE DATA!
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CHUNK THE DATA!
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Comprehension

• Teachers who provide systematic and explicit
  comprehension instruction will see real gains in
  student achievement and will enhance students
  joy in reading.

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Comprehension

• ELL students may acquire foundational skills yet
  still lack comprehension required to read for
  learning. Select carefully and consider
  multicultural implications of your choices for
  reading material.

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Comprehension

• Web Sites
• http//www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Pub
  lications/Research_Points/RP_Winter04.pdf -
  Overview on current research for ELL reading
  instruction
• http//www.readingonline.org/articles/handbook/pre
  ssley/index.html - Well thought out ways to
  increase comprehension skills INCLUDES
  REFERENCES TO USING IMAGERY AND GRAPHIC
  ORGANIZERS TO ENHANCE READING COMPREHENSION

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Putting it all together!

• Graphic organizers provide a comprehension
  strategy that can help students at all levels
  chunk the material in more meaningful ways.
• There are literally THOUSANDS of resources
  available to aid teachers in developing imaging,
  mind mapping, graphing, etc.
• Lets use this opportunity to map what we have
  learned about graphic organizers from A-Z!

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Discussion

• PROFICIENT LIFE-LONG READING BEGETS LIFE-LONG
  LEARNING
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