How Do You Find A Graphic Organizer?
Graphic organizers help children identify the key ideas and important details of a lesson. Finding the correct graphic organizer for a lesson is a matter of thinking about lesson’s goal, and the type of information you want the learners to absorb. Choose a Venn diagram for comparing and contrasting. The information placed inside the two overlapping circles shows what two things have in common; the information in one or the other part of a circle shows the differences between the two things. Use a K-W-L chart for non-fiction reading tasks. Before they read a lesson, students fill in what they already know about a topic in the “K” column, and the things they want to find out in the “W” column. After they have read the text, they complete the “L” column with what they learned. Have students complete a word web for brainstorming. This can be used for pre-reading to activate prior knowledge. It also works as a pre-writing activity, to begin thinking about the writing topic. Have the student
