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Using Graphic Organizer: Graphic Organizers Help Students To Gather, Sift Through, Organize and Share Information
Using Graphic Organizer: Graphic Organizers Help Students To Gather, Sift Through, Organize and Share Information
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USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Graphic organizers help students to gather, sift through, organize and share
information.
Use Graphic Organizers at any point in the lesson to structure information into
understandable chunks: When taking notes about new information in a lesson to
organize ideas. After reading a book to organize the plot. When comparing and
contrasting two concepts.
A graphic organizer visually represents ideas, concepts, and relationships between
various components. Concept maps and knowledge maps all are types of graphic
organizers. You can use any chart or diagram as a graphic organizer to compare facts
and depict a story.
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.