How Do You Teach With Graphic Organizers?
Graphic organizers are useful educational tools in any subject area. They help students organize their thoughts and ideas for answering questions, function as a pre-writing tool for essays and provide a visual display of information for students who need visual aids in their learning. They can be an easy way to differentiate instruction for a variety of learning styles as well. If you want to teach with graphic organizers you need to teach your students how to use them first. Make a copy of your graphic organizer that you can project onto a dry erase board. If you are using an overhead projector, photocopy your graphic organizer onto a transparency paper. If you are using an LCD projector, put a copy of the graphic organizer into your computer’s word-processing program. Project the graphic organizer onto the screen and explain all of the parts of the organizer to the students. If the organizer is a table, show them the data that belong in each section. If the organizer is a web, show t
