Key stage three 3

1. Sharing Teaching and Learning Ideas
Half Term Six Focus: Key Stage Three
Key Idea: Using Sociograms to comprehend and expand on
contextual relationships.
A sociogram is a graphic organiser that represents the relationships among characters in a literary text. It
could also be used in other subject areas for example, analysing potential cause-and-effect relationships:
• History: (i.e. Russia during WWI)
• Science: (i.e. A particular element and its reaction with other elements, etc.)
• P.E. (i.e. Explaining the rules of a particular sport/interaction of players, etc.)
Ways you can do this in your classroom:
• A specific character/concept is placed in the middle of the diagram.
• Students work to analyse the development of the relationships this character/concept has with
others.
• The developments/changes in these relationships must be replicated by symbols created by students
to depict the characters/concepts and their interactions (i.e. a strong black line from the centre focus
to another may start to become thinner or broken, representing the potential breakdown of a
relationship. The proximity of characters on the diagram could also indicate particular elements of
their relationship. Key images could also be used to represent important facts or qualities about
them; a bully could be represented by a closed fist, etc.)