Graphic organizers are visual tools that help students organize information and ideas. They provide a visual representation of relationships between concepts. There are many different types of graphic organizers that can be used for different purposes, such as semantic webbing for organizing ideas in writing, network trees for hierarchical relationships, compare-contrast matrices for comparing attributes, and cycle maps for circular processes. The main purpose is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction.
2. Semantic webbing is a method that students
can use to organize information from a
reading passage or other source as part of the
prewriting process. Another term for a
semantic web is a graphic organizer; the
purpose is to give students a visual sense of
the organization of their ideas to help them
outline those ideas in their writing.
3. A graphic organizer is a visual and graphic display that
depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or
ideas within a learning task.
Graphic organizers are also sometimes referred to as
knowledge maps, concept maps, story maps, cognitive
organizers, advance organizers, or concept diagrams.
graphic organizer, also known as knowledge map,
concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance
organizer, or concept diagram, is a communication tool
that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts,
thoughts, or ideas, and the relationships between them.
The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a
visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction.
4. Graphic organizers come in many different
forms, each one best suited to organizing a
particular type of information. The following
examples are merely a sampling of the
different types and uses of graphic
organizers.
5. 1. A Descriptive
or Thematic Map
works well for
mapping generic
information, but
particularly well
for mapping
hierarchical
relationships.
6. 2. Organizing a
hierarchical set
of information,
reflecting super
ordinate or
subordinate
elements, is
made easier by
constructing a
NetworkTree.