Saturday, October 22, 2011

Graphic Organizers



Useful Graphic OrganizersGraphic organizers are a great way to help students visualize concepts and events. They are great for just about every type of content. You should definitely try to incorporate organizers in your lessons. Let's take a quick look at some of the most popular organizers used by teachers.

1. Concept Webs - Webs help show a flow of relationships between concepts.

2. Life Cycles - Science organizer is also very helpful for demonstrating processes.

3. Venn Diagrams - Best for examining relationships between 2 or 3 topics.

4. Paragraph Format - The Big Mac organizer is really helpful for students.

5. Character Analysis Pyramid -Teachers find this helpful when reviewing stories.

6. SQ3R Chart - This works well with this reading method.

7. Meeting New Words - You will find this invaluable for new vocabulary.

8. Pre-reading Organizer - Predictions are an important part of comprehension.

9. Character Maps - Our Quadruple character map has been a favorite.

10. We now have over 1,100 printable graphic organizers .

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