Graphic organizers are visual displays that help learners organize information. They connect content in a meaningful way to improve understanding. There are four main types: sequential, conceptual, cyclical, and hierarchical organizers. Graphic organizers benefit students by organizing information, requiring higher-order thinking, building analytical skills, providing scaffolding, and engaging students with graphics. They also help teachers structure lessons and assess student understanding. Common uses of graphic organizers include sequencing events, analyzing concepts, note-taking, comparing ideas, and relating information to main topics. Effective implementation involves familiarizing students with organizers, using examples, and reviewing student work.

1. Graphic Organizers

2. Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers are visual
displays of key content information
designed to benefit learners who
have difficulty organizing
information (Fisher & Schumaker,
1995).
Graphic Organizers

3. • Help students maintain the information over
time (Fountas & Pinnell, 2001, as cited in
Baxendrall, 2003).
• Connects content in a meaningful way to help
students gain a clearer understanding of the
material (Fountas & Pinnell, 2001, as cited in
Baxendrall, 2003).
Graphic Organizers

4. Although there are many variations and possible combinations
of graphic organizers used in the classrooms, most of them fall into four
basic categories namely:
Graphic Organizers
Sequential Organizer
Conceptual Organizer
Cyclical Organizer Hierarchical Organizer

5. Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
Effectiveness and Advantages of

6. Why are they effective?
• Organize information into
chunks for easier memory and
for developing processes.
• Require students to construct
responses “which targets higher –
order thinking skills”
• Build analytical, critical, and creative
thinking skills in all academic areas.
• Provide a scaffold
approach to keep
students “on track”
• Reduce information processing
demands
• Engage students
• Involve graphics to help students
understand complex ideas and
remember them longer.

7. Advantages of Graphic Organizers to Teachers
A reference when presenting lessons and assisting in interactivity.
Structures lesson notes in a way that makes sense to students
Observe student thinking processes on what you taught as a class, as
a group, or independently.
Helps in assessing your students’ understanding of what they are
reading

8. Advantages of Graphic
Organizers to Students
Increase your understanding
about the topic
Visualizing the general concept and
break it down into manageable
specific ideas.
Analyze the correlation between
two ideas or themes.
Determine the validity,
relevance, and correlation
of evidence
Easily identify the main
elements of a composition.
Evaluate cause and effect
Compare and contrast ideas.
Structure their writing
projects better and make the
entire process easier.
Recognizes sequences,
hierarchies, and patterns.
Implement problem solving
skills.
Enhance understanding when
reading and writing
Expand their vocabulary
Enhance organizational skills.

9. • Grade Level
• Point of Implementation
• Instructional Context
• Ease of Implementation
Factors Influencing Effectiveness of
Graphic Organizers

10. Learning Competencies that can
be taught with the use of
Graphic Organizers

11. Graphic organizers have been applied
across a range of curriculum subject areas
such as Science, Social Studies, Language,
Arts, Math and many more.

12. Graphic organizers are useful when
brainstorming ideas, especially as part of a
group project or plan. They can be used for a
variety of educational purposes, including
sequencing events, analyzing cause and effect,
note taking, vocabulary knowledge, comparing
and contrasting, developing concepts in detail
and relating information to main ideas or
themes.

13. Graphic Organizers
Instructional Procedures in Using

14. Familiarize yourself with the different types of graphic organizers
Present the specific organizer for a topic. Point out its
subject and organizational framework
Explain to students what graphic organizers are and why
they are useful in learning
Use examples to illustrate the use of some graphic
organizers
Assign the graphic organizer as an individual, paired or
group activity
Review student's work. Generate classroom discussion
on the effective use of graphic organizers.

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