Graphic organizers are visual tools that help students organize and structure information. They use visual symbols to represent concepts and relationships. There are different types of graphic organizers for different purposes, such as tree maps to show classifications, Venn diagrams to compare concepts, and flow charts to illustrate processes. Effective teachers use graphic organizers to help students sequence information, organize their thoughts logically, develop analysis skills, and determine relationships like cause and effect. Graphic organizers should be introduced with examples and modeling to help students learn to read and use them.

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Lawrence O. Rapanan

2. What is Graphic Organizers?
 A 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.

3. Why Graphic Organizers?
What do effective educators
had to learn to enhance
students understanding and
retention of lessons taken in
class?

4. What are the uses of
Graphic Organizers?
 Help students sequence information
 Help students organize their thoughts in a logical
way
 Help students organize information visually
 Help students develop analysis skills to be able to
formulate plans, processes
 Help students evaluate criteria for decision making
 Help students analyze and prioritize information
 Help students determine cause-effect relationship
 Help students cluster and brainstorm ideas and
information

5. Types, Uses and Examples of Graphic
Organizers
Types Uses Examples
Star/web Use to show definitions, attributes,
examples, and brainstorming
Fishbone Map, Spider Web
Chart/Matrix Use to show attributes, comparing and
contrasting, and evaluating
T-Chart, Venn Diagram,
Compare-Contrast Matrix,
PMI, Continuum Scale,
Ranking, KWLH, Synectics
Tree/Map Use to show classifications, pedigrees,
analysis of structures, attributes,
examples and brainstorming
Network Tree, Cerebral
Chart, Questions,
Categories, Hypothesis
Matrix
Chain Use to show processes, sequences,
causes and effects, and chronology
Bridging Snapshots,
Human Interaction
Outline
Sketch Use to show physical structures, descriptions of places, spatial
relationships, concrete objects, and visual objects

6. Used to show the interaction of a
complex event or complex
phenomenon
Used to describe a central idea: a
thing (a geographic region), process
(meiosis), concept (altruism), or
proposition with support
(experimental drugs should be
available to AIDS victims).
Key frame questions: What is the
central idea? What are its
attributes? What are its functions?

7. Use to analyze similarities and
differences between two things
by placing individual
characteristics in either the left
or right sections.
Use to analyze similarities and
differences between two things
by placing individual
characteristics in either the left
or right sections, and common
characteristics within the
overlapping section.

8. Use to show similarities and
differences between two things.
Use to show positive, negative,
and interesting attributes of a
subject, concept, topic,
solution, etc., in order to
determine the nature of the
outcome and whether it will be
worth continuing or not.

9. Use for time lines showing historical events or ages, degrees
of something, shades of meaning, or ratings scales
Use when prioritizing elements from most important to least
important; relative position or standing; a series of things or
persons; or an orderly arrangement from 1st to last.

10. Use to show how a series of
events interact to produce a set
of results again and again.
Use to see changes over time,
reveal the sequence of step-
by-step methods, illustrate
complex processes, and show
cause and effect.

11. Use to help students activate prior knowledge. It is a group instruction
activity that serves as a model for active thinking during reading
provides an approach to creative thinking that depends on looking at,
what appears on the surface as, unrelated phenomenon and drawing
relevant connections.

12. Use to quickly amass information
or elements, stimulate creative
thinking, develop new ideas, in an
unrestrained and spontaneous
manner, generated either
individually or by a group.
Use to list facts, definitions,
attributes, or examples related to a
single topic, concept, or theme.

13. allows you to identify the
three basic components of
most hypotheses.
Use to list a set of questions, set
forth as an explanation for the
occurrence of some specified
group of phenomena, either
asserted merely as a provisional
conjecture to guide investigation
(working hypothesis) or accepted
as highly probable in the light of
established facts.

14. Use to show the problem solving
process by defining the
components of the problem and
attempted solutions.
Interact - act one upon another.
Interaction - reciprocal action,
effect, or influence. interwork,
interplay; mesh, intermesh,
engage, dovetail, mortise;
interweave, interlace, intertwine;
interchange; coact, cooperate

15. How to use Graphic
Organizers?
 Choose one type of organizer to introduce to the
class.
 Introduce the concept of a graphic organizer.
 Present the chosen graphic organizer.
 Model using graphic organizer to the class.
 Guide the class through another example using
the same type of graphic organizer.
 Assign an independent exercise that allows
students to complete a graphic organizer.

16. How to read Graphic
Organizers?
 Start in the center or at the top.
 Look for arrows.
 Determine the organizational structure.
 Consider relationship

17. And for the last
slide…

18. Thank You..
For listening 
-Lawrence Rapanan