Focusing on Literacy Links

ORGANIZATIONAL
PATTERNS FOR
TAKING NOTES
Chapter 3
Pages 143 - 147
 Focusing on Organizational Patterns
Objective:
•To use Thinking Maps as organizational patterns for taking notes more
effectively.

Identifying
“Mapping” a
Welcome Sample
sample
and Organizational
informational
Agenda Patterns
text

Planning Closure and

time for expectations A Language for
classroom for sharing Learning
applications. student work
Chapter 3
Pages 143 - 147
Page 127 Your students are
beginning to use Thinking
Maps to deepen their
understanding of academic
vocabulary.

You Have You have modeled the use

Applied of Thinking Maps for writing
across the curriculum.
Thinking
Maps to
Literacy Skills You have integrated the use
of Thinking Maps with your
students’ note taking
strategies.
CHAPTER 3
LITERACY Your students are beginning
to use Thinking Maps as
LINKS
strategies to improve their
reading comprehension.
 The Essential Nine
1. Identifying Similarities and
Differences
2. Summarizing and Note Taking
3. Reinforcing Effort and
Providing Recognition
4. Homework and Practice
5. Nonlinguistic Representations
6. Cooperative Learning
7. Setting Objectives and
Providing Feedback
8. Generating and Testing
Hypotheses
9. Cues, Questions, and
Advanced Organizers
Peregoy and Boyle. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL Page 142

“Text structure provides a

conceptual net for keeping
information in mind.”

“Text organization has a profound

effect on comprehension and
memory.”
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“Students miss much of the

original data (up to 50
percent) when the cognitive
strategies were not fully or
partially developed.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

 Page 142

Most writers present

information in the context
of an explicit structure, and
the more a person is
aware of this explicit
structure, the better she is
able to summarize the
information.” p. 32
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What Is the Organizational Pattern?
Sample Passage
The water is cleaned at the water treatment plant. This cleaning is done
in steps. First, the water is poured into a large tank. Then, it is mixed
with a substance that causes sticky clumps to form. The clumps settle on
the bottom of the tank and the cleaner water moves on. The water still
needs more cleaning. In the second step, water is poured through a layer
of gravel.

Breaking the Code

On (date), not long
after, now, as, before,
after, when, first,
second, then, finally,
during, until.
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What Is the Organizational Pattern?

Sample Passage
Lewis and Clark were both strong leaders but different from
each other. Lewis liked to walk on the riverbank ahead of
everyone. Clark guided the boat along the river.

Breaking the Code

However; but, as well
as, on the other hand,
not only…but also,
either…or, while,
although, similarly, yet
unless, meanwhile,
nevertheless,
otherwise, compared
to, and despite.
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What Is the Organizational Pattern?

Sample Passage
Scientists come to the Antarctic to study the weather and the
ice. Scientists also want to learn more about how animals live
in this harsh climate.

Breaking the Code

because, cause, since
therefore,
consequently, as a
result, this led to, so,
so that, nevertheless,
accordingly, if…then,
and thus.
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What Is the Organizational Pattern?

Sample Passage
The hippo’s head is huge.
It has a big mouth, with
teeth so long they are like
husks. The hippo’s body
is shaped like a barrel. It
has very short legs and
each foot has four toes
with very thick toenails.
The hippos has nostrils
high up on its muzzle.

Breaking the Code

Parts, components,
structures, form
 What Is the Organizational Pattern?

Connections Across Continents

After Europeans explored parts of Asia and Africa,
they look westward across the Atlantic Ocean. No maps
existed to help sailors cross it.
First, Spain sent ships across the Atlantic. Christopher
Columbus sailed in 1492. When he reached land, he thought
he had reached the Indies in Asia. The people he met became
known as Indians.
After Columbus’s first voyage, Spain sent more
explorers, soldiers, priests, and settlers. The Spanish
conquered the Aztecs in 1521 and the Incas in 1533. By 1535,
Spain had established the colony of the New Spain in the
Americas.
 What Is the Organizational Pattern?

About one hundred years after Columbus’s first

voyage, English colonists attempted to set up a colony on
Roanoke Island in 1587. The colony and its people
disappeared by 1590.
Next, English colonists settled at Jamestown, Virginia,
in 1607. After several difficult years, settlers raised tobacco as
a successful cash crop. New people arrived, including
Africans.
Farther north, the French established the city of
Quebec in 1608, which later became the capital of the colony of
New France. Sixteen years later, in 1624, the Dutch started
New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
 What Is the Organizational Pattern?

In 1620, a new group of English settlers landed at

Plymouth. The Pilgrims wanted religious freedom. In 1630, a
larger group of English settlers, the Puritans, arrived. They,
too, wanted to practice their own religion. They founded the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. Eventually there were 13 English
colonies along the eastern coast of North America.

Apply it!

1. Which European country was the first to establish colonies in

the Americas?
2. Who arrived first, the Puritans or the Pilgrims?
3. In what order were the colonies of New Amsterdam, New Spain,
and New France established?
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Chapter 16 Bacteria of bacteria.
.Name and describe the O
structures of the bacterial cell.
.Explain how bacteria are D
classified.
.Distinguish between
heterotrophic and autotrophic E
bacteria.
.Describe the various types of
bacterial respiration.

Bacteria are everywhere. They are found in air,

.Discuss the role of bacteria W
water, soil, your food, and in the bodies of all living in nature.
things. They can live in places where no other living
thing survives. They have been found in the icy
regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, and in the near-
.List several ways to limit O
boiling waters of hot springs. They live on bacterial growth.
mountaintops and ocean bottoms. A drop of pond
water may contain over 50 million bacteria.
.Describe the ways in which R
bacteria may gain new genes.
.Discuss the steps involved in D
genetic engineering.

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 The Seven Stages of Man
Motivation/Prior Knowledge
Ask students to summarize the main stages they have passed
through in their own lives so far. Tell them that Shakespeare
describes the stages of human life in this poem.

Master Teacher Note: You might want to tell students that

Shakespeare frequently compared life to acting. In this
speech, however, he extends the comparison for many lines.

Purpose-Setting Question: How accurate is the description of

each stage of life?

.Discussion: How can one person play many parts?

.Reading Strategy: Ask students to predict what the stages
will be.
What Are the Code Words?
 Organizational Patterns

“In order to remember, the mind must sort through

information and store what is important and discard
what is not important.
In order to remember the important parts of text, the
mind needs to sort against the structure of the text.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

 Now You Try
Read an informational article and take notes
based on the organizational patterns found in
the text.
Circle any “code words.”
Add a Frame of Reference to every map you
make and summarize the information in one
or two statements that you write inside the
Frame.
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Recognizing Text Students can use
Organizational Patterns the maps to store,
retrieve, and
summarize
information.

Students use Students become

more active and
Thinking Maps to engaged in their
visualize reading.
organizational
patterns
Students are more
able to self-
monitor if they are
gathering the
needed
information from a
text.
 Closure

Take some time to meet by grade level or

department in order to plan how you might
use Thinking Maps to take notes.
Save your students’ work and be prepared to
share their examples at our next follow-up
session.