Value of Graphic Organizers

[Admin]

Students,

We have seen that graphic organizers are useful tools you should utilize during content area literacy instruction whether you are developing expository text structure awareness, vocabulary knowledge, reading or writing competencies. However, I have not focused on the value of graphic organizers in class but hope that as we explore a wide range, you will discover the value of this tool.

Having examined a few during the week, respond to the following questions: You may engage in some reading or research to compose your response.

1. What are graphic organizers? (2 marks)

2. List 3 benefits of using graphic organizers in the teaching and learning of content. (6 marks)

Let's share our ideas and learn from each other. All the best.

Ms Polius

[kmesmin]

Graphic organizers also referred to as concept maps, story maps, concept diagrams or knowledge maps are visual or graphic displays which depict the relationship between terms, facts and ideas within learning a task. They allow the mind to discover patterns and relationship it otherwise may have missed.

Three benefits of using graphic organizers in the teaching and learning of content are:

1. If used as a review tool, they help students remember important facts and concepts they need to know.

2. It would help students better understand how their ideas can be broken down and organized for easier communication.

3. Constructing the graphic organizers will engage students, once students are involved in the construction of their own knowledge is tends to more authentic and longer lasting.

[tedward]

1) A graphic organizer is a simplistic visual tool that is used to demonstrate the main ideas, key concepts and relationships between concepts in the form of diagram.

2) Advantages of using graphic organizers to teach and learn content are as follows:

i) it makes revising easy since all the information is placed on one page rather than hidden in large paragraphs which can be very confusing and frustrating.

ii) it allows students to make connections because students will be able to link various concepts and information and allow them to make or identify relationships between these topics and concepts.

iii) They can be great assistance to visual learners who many of the time struggle with information that is presented in written form only. Visual learners will be able to see what is being said and as a result will remember what was taught when they construct a graphic organizer.

[Admin]

This is an excellent start, Edward and Mesmin. I like both definitions that you presented. You both receive full marks (8). BRAVO!

Let's wait to see what the others have to say.

Well done

[qvidal]

1. Graphic organizers are visual representations of key concepts, ideas and knowledge. They allows students to see relationships among ideas and concepts.

2. Three benefits of graphic organizers

1) They cater to visual learners, (students who learn best by seeing).

2) They allow teachers and students to link ideas and concepts in a simplistic form, which fosters better understanding of the concepts.

3) They foster retention and make it less difficult for students to revise concepts and ideas.

[geugene]

Graphic organizers are communication devices such as maps, charts and diagrams that show the organization or structure of concepts, terms, principles, and ideas as well as relationships between them.

First, students are considerably more likely to understand and remember the content subject you are teaching. Graphics help students separate what is important to know from what might be interesting, but not essential information.

Second, because the semantic information processing demands are reduced, you can often address the content at more complex levels; this is especially true for many students with learning disabilities. Showing (as opposed to just telling) how the information is structured can be a powerful
way to facilitate understanding.

Third, students are more likely to become strategic learners. Reading and writing skills, communication skills, and analytical, critical, and creative thinking skills are all subject to improve when students learn to recognize these patterns of thinking, and constructing, by using graphic organizers.

[gjames]

Graphic Organizers can be defined as visual representations of knowledge, ideas, concepts, facts and opinions of a specific subject area and they usually provide a link of these key concepts or ideas to each other.

Three benefits of using Graphic Organizers
1) they provide students with a visual representation of information, thus catering to the visual learner.
2) they are reader friendly: they make it easier for resistive readers to comprehend and analyse new information.
3) it can assist with brainstorming exercises where students are expected to make sense of diverse ideologies and conclusions.

[ehilaire25]

Graphic organizers are a pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information. They help the student convert and compress information into a structured, simple-to-read, graphic display. The resulting visual display conveys complex information in a simple-to-understand manner.

Three benefits of graphic organizers are;
1. students are likely to understand a concept when it is broken down into smaller workable parts which allows them to understand what in being taught.

2. reduces on information processes demands. this is important when dealing with slower students.

3. students become more strategic learners;Reading and
writing skills, communication skills, and analytical, critical, and creative thinking
skills are all subject to improve when students learn recognize these patterns of
thinking, construct, and use graphic organizers.

[mmathurin]

Graphic organizer also known as knowledge map or concept map is a visual and graphic display of information that seek to show the relationships between facts,terms and ideas within a learning task.
There are many adavantages when the use of graphic organizers is incoporated in content areas, three being

1) Help students prepare for learning by putting down their background knowledge on pape and see how it is connected to their new learning.


2) Facilitates understanding. When students use graphic organizers, it allows students to condense information and write it in simple language that they understand. Moreover, they serve as an excellent tool for visual learners who struggle with information that is presented in an entirely written form.

3) Can allow teachers gain an insight as to students understanding of a concept or reading text.

[andre]

1)A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task. It is also sometimes referred to as a knowledge map.
2)Three benefits of graphic organizers are;
a)content is made easier to understand and learn.
b)the demand for information processing is reduced.
c)students can become more strategic learners.

[law]

1.A graphic organizer is a visual representation of material to be taught to students.

Three benefits are:
a) they assist students in brainstorming for activities
b) they create an avenue for students to be more organized in presenting information
c) they allow students to process and understand information better since they display the connection of ideas

[sjustin]

What is a graphic organizer?
Graphic organizers are visual representations and categorizations of knowledge, concepts or ideas which serves to compact information in a more simplistic manner in an effort to show the relationship between these facts and concepts.


Benefits of Graphic Organizers:
1. They are an excellent tool for visual learners who struggle with information that is presented in an entirely written form.

2. Graphic organizers helps to compact a large amount of information into a more reader friendly graphic display.

3. Graphic Organizers are ideal for helping students process information as they are already categorized for their benefit therefore making learning easier.

[ndubois]

Graphic organizers also referred to as concept map,web,graphs, charts, frames or cluster are visual representations of information relating to concepts, ideas and also relationships between concepts in a text.Examples venn diagram, storyboard, story map.

Three benefits of graphic organizers are:
1) Helps students focus on what is most important in a concept as the irrelevant information is eliminated.

2) It provides students with the avenue to transfer information or knowledge and think critically as they are able to identify relationships between concepts taught in a specific content area.

3) Helps students produce well organize summarize and answers to questions as they now have a better understanding of what was read.

[jwilliams]

Graphic organizers are visual representations of knowledge, concept and ideas

Three benefits of graphic organizers:
1.It enable information to be presented visually which caters to the visual learner.
2.Ideas are easily connected which facilitates the building of relationships between concepts especially new information with prior knowledge
3.Create a simple structure for thinking about information in a logical and well sequenced way

[ndubois]

I meant summaries not summarize*