Best Practice: Graphic Organizers
Best Practice: Graphic Organizers
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Suitability
Suitability
Recommended Domains:
Recommended Domains:
Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking
Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking
Recommended Levels:
Recommended Levels:
Entering (1) through Reaching (6)
Description
Description
A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task. Graphic organizers are also sometimes referred to as knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, cognitive organizers, advance organizers, or concept diagrams.
Foldables are multi-dimensional graphic organizers that can be used for skills reinforcement, practice, and/or information organizing. ... Not only do Foldables reinforce skills and strategies essential for reading success, they provide a kinesthetic tool for organizing and analyzing learning.
Observability
Observability
What it Sounds Like in the Classroom
What it Sounds Like in the Classroom
Teacher
Teacher
Student
Student
The teacher explains how graphic organizers and foldables are beneficial to organize ideas/facts/opinions for contributing to a discussion and plan for writing.
"Use this graphic organizer in the planning stage of your writing."
"Can I use this graphic organizer to help me?"
"What are the steps? Do you have a picture of the steps? Is there a video?"
What it Looks Like in the Classroom
What it Looks Like in the Classroom
Teacher
Teacher
Student
Student
The teacher models the use of the graphic organizer or foldable to demonstrate the how and why to support the organizational process.
The student will draw a graphic organizer or create a foldable to record their responses.
Timeliness
Timeliness
Research-based best practices are strategies that can be quickly implemented within daily instruction, activities, and classroom assessmentsnot. They are essential for multilingual learners at all proficiency levels and highly beneficial to all students, including non-MLs. Therefore, they should be observed frequently across most lessons.
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