Graphic Organizers

1. Graphic Organizers • Broadly defined, graphic organizers are visual devices that provide a variety of organizational structures and categorization patterns for the learning of language and content. The most prominent learning objective is increased comprehension and/or language production. An additional oft-stated objective is an identification of the relationships between concepts. Common examples of graphic organizers include KWL charts (What do you know?; What do you want to know?; What have you Learned), Venn diagrams, matrices, concept maps, tree diagrams, and information flow charts (Bromley, DeVitis & Modlo, M., 1999; Egan, 1999; Merkley & Jeffries, 2000; Rice, 1994; Robinson, 1998).

2. Four Basic Types and Two Specific Use Types • Two Specific Use Types are the Venn Diagram and the KWL Chart, both of which you may have seen before. • The Basic Four Types are: • Tree Diagram • 2. Concept Map • Matrix • 4. Flow Chart • .

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4. KWL Chart

5. Tree Diagram

6. Another Tree Diagram

7. A Tree Diagram from a Summary

8. Concept Map

9. Matrix

10. Flow Chart

11. Flow Chart

12. Flow Chart