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Handout 3A.2: Video Viewing Guide – Using Graphic Organizers in Writing In this video, a teacher in a fourth-grade class demonstrates how to use a graphic organizer as the foundation of a writing assignment. The class shown has 26 students. The majority have attended this school since kinder garten.
Graphic organizers have been classified into five major categories according to their structures: ‘‘star web, chart matrix, tree map, chain, and sketch. Graphic organizers have also been classified into eight categories according to their purposes for learning (Loretta F, 2008). The eight categories of graphic organizer are KWL chart, history
Video Details. In this video, a teacher in a fourth-grade class models how to lead a class in completing a graphic organizer of content presented in a video (see the video Using Videos to Anchor Instruction). The class shown has 26 students. The majority have attended this school since kindergarten.
the major ones are, they can use strategies, such as graphic organizers and signal words, to help them structure the text of their own writing. Like any other reading strategy, it is important for Mrs. Kealoha to help students understand and know what text structure is, and then teach text structure explicitly and systematically. Explicit teaching
The above studies reveal the impacts of graphic organizers on students’ learning in content areas or reading. However, no scholars have studied the use and influence of graphic organizers on teachers’ learning. Therefore, this study aims to discuss the use of graphic organizers in an elementary school English teachers’ professional
A graphic organizer uses visual symbols to represent knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas in a text and show the relationships among them. Graphic organizers can be used in different ways with adult English learners at different levels, from Beginning ESL to Advanced. We talked about some graphic organizers that can be used at different levels:
Video Details. In this video, a teacher in a second-grade class demonstrates how to use a graphic organizer as the foundation of a writing assignment. The class shown has 26 students. Three are native English speakers; the rest are English learners whose home language is Spanish and whose English proficiency is in the intermediate range.
In today's high-stakes educational environment, students must be provided with effective strategies with which to expand their skills. This article discusses an effective set of graphic organizers that aid in teaching the first two steps in the writing process: planning and drafting. (Contains 4 figures.)