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- Greetings, in this video,
we're going to look at examples of graphic organizers
and how they can be used for your lesson plans.
So let's begin with a graphic organizer,
that's pretty classic, a sequence chart.
A sequence chart helps students focus on the order of events
and details in a story.
Students can complete a sequence chart
while reading a story, or shortly after reading a story.
A sequence chart can also be used
while students are listening to a passage,
and they can write the details,
and the details in order, on the sequence chart,
of what they hear.
So how can you use this in a lesson plan?
Students can use this during the practice stage
of the lesson plan to focus on the details
and the order of details.
And then they can use that sequence chart
to write a summary during the production stage.
So let's look at the next organizer,
it's called a hand organizer.
A hand organizer ask questions W-questions,
on each finger of the hand.
The organizer can help students
comprehend the details of the story.
So while students are reading or listening to a passage,
they can fill out a few words
or sentences for each of the W-questions.
So how can this be used in your lesson plan?
This can be used during the practice date
of your lesson plan to focus on the details.
Generally W-questions,
are good intensive reading or listening activities
because they focus on the details.
Now let's look at a graphic organizer called a word map.
This map helps students develop vocabulary,
and specifically develop morphological syntactic
and semantic awareness.
As you see from the example,
the key vocabulary word is written in the center,
and then there's a bubble devoted to synonyms,
another bubble to the antonyms,
another bubble to the part of speech,
another bubble to the definition,
and another bubble for writing a sentence with that word.
And finally there's the last bubble
where students can write other forms of the word,
idioms, collocations, or even create a drawing of the word.
So how can you use this in your lesson plans?
This can be used during the practice stage
of your lesson plan,
when students are reading a story
that contains new vocabulary.
Generally focusing on vocabulary,
is an intensive reading or listening activity.
So the next organizers called the KWL chart.
There are three columns,
the first column, what I know,
helps students develop an interest in the topic
and helps them generate background knowledge
about the topic.
The second column, what I want to know,
helps them develop a greater interest in the topic
and students can be assigned
a specific aspect of the topic that they can research
and that they're interested in.
And that leads to the last column,
which is, what I learned.
Student here, can report on
and reflect on what they learned.
So how can this be used in your lesson plan?
The first two columns,
what I know and what I want to know,
can be used during the warmup or introduction stage
of your lesson plan.
And the last column, what I learned,
can be used during the production
or review stage of your lesson plan.
The last graphic organizer we'll look at is the web diagram.
The web diagram can be used for various topics
in different ways.
One way to use it is as a story map,
to lay out the basic elements of the story.
So this helps students comprehend the story
and to identify the basic elements in the story.
It helps students focus on a combination of main ideas
and details.
So how can this be used in your lesson plan?
This can be used during the practice stage
of your lesson plan,
to identify the basic elements of the story.
And it can especially be completed
after reading or listening to a story.
Then students can use that web diagram
to write a summary of the story
during the production stage of the lesson plan.
So in this video, we looked at five examples
of graphic organizers
and how they can be used in your lesson plans.
If you're interested in other graphic organizers,
try searching online for a circle diagram, a story pyramid,
or a concept wheel.
I hope you can use graphic organizers in your classroom
sometime soon.
Thanks so much for your attention.
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