Using a graphic organizer is an effective way to organize your thoughts as you read or listen to a lecture. Graphic organizers can aid your comprehension and help you better remember what you read or hear. They help you focus on ideas and how those ideas are related to other ideas, such as cause-and-effect relationships, sequence of events, and parts of stories.
Some specific types of graphic organizers are webs and clusters, cause-and-effect diagrams, cycle diagrams, KWL and 5 W's charts, and time lines.
Student responses may vary. Acceptable answers will identify a graphic organizer style and will correctly organize the key information from the text into that graphic organizer. Main ideas and key subtopics will be represented in the graphic organizer.
Student responses may vary. Acceptable answers will describe the graphic organizer he or she chose and why its layout and function relates to the text at hand.
Student responses may vary. Acceptable answers will identify the subject and pages of the textbook from which the student used a graphic organizer. The student will also explain what he or she learned about grapic organizers, and will explain that using this skill will help to organize the most important information when reading from texts or studying for exams.
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