How Do You Compare & Contrast Characters In A Graphic Organizer?
In this visual media age, students are increasingly visual learners. To the mind conditioned to rely on pictures as its main information source, printed words on a page are much slower and more cumbersome to process. Our minds are much more adept at garnering information from pictures or graphics than in reading page after page of print. Learning has become snapshot in nature as opposed to a more contemplative approach. Graphic organizers are an excellent instruction tool for just this type of learning mind-set. Study the graphic organizer example below to see how it may be used to compare characters in a story. On a piece of notebook paper, in the upper right-hand section of the page, draw a rectangle, circle or oval large enough to write at least five to seven short sentences inside it. At the top of your drawn space, name your character (first, middle and last names) and write it down. Under your character’s name, inside the space you drew, write down five to seven sentences describ
