Graphic Organizers & Other Forms
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The Online Interactive Thinking Strategies and Tools are designed to provide a scaffold which enables students to think with more depth and structure. When using them, ask students to continually reflect on and justify which Habits of Mind best suit how they are thinking. When students are presenting their thoughts and findings, encourage them to use their dominant Multiple Intelligences.
Thinking Tools | Teacher & Student Planners
Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction
One of our roles as ESL and bilingual specialists is to encourage mainstream teachers to employ teaching techniques which make content area information more accessible to second language learners. Content materials present text which is too dense for ELLs. Teach your students to use graphic organizers such as webs, Venn diagrams, and charts to help them better comprehend these texts. These are visual tools that help ELLs understand and organize information. They are like mind maps which promote active learning.
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers "Graphic organizers are tools that help your brain think." - Kylene Beers Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you’ve downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and print it out.
Interactive Graphic Organizer
Prepared by Tracey Hall & Nicole Strangman Introduction One way to help make a curriculum more supportive of students and teachers is to incorporate graphic organizers.
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers help to break information down into manageable pieces, help students activate prior knowledge, and provide a different/modern mode of instruction around a traditional topic. From **Inside Words** by Janet Allen: (These are a small sample of Graphic Organizers that come on a CD in this book. The link above will take you to Amazon.com, where you can purchase the complete text with the CD and get Free Shipping!) <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
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The Frayer Model is a vocabulary development tool. In contrast with a straight definition, the model helps to develop a better understanding of complex concepts by having students identify not just what something is, but what something is not. The center of the diagram shows the concept being defined, while the quadrants around the concept are used for providing the details.
Frayer Model
I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. Use this form to gather some indication from your new class about their likes and dislikes, their favourite lessons or after school clubs they enjoy. It will help you to build your relationships with children as you quickly learn more about them.