Several people have provided good feedback on www.newsela.com, the leveled news articles website I shared a couple of weeks ago. Please share how your are using it in your classrooms. Let's get stronger by learning from each other.
Lee Wright, 7th grade science teacher at SAMS, recently emailed me this site with several graphic organizers: http://pacehighschool.net/Documents/GraphicOrganizersforReading.pdf . She is working hard to have appropriate resources to support literacy in her classroom. Lee was excited for me to share with all of you, so please thank her for the resource!
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Monday, December 2, 2013
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Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers help to make abstract ideas and relationships clear.
Be sure there is an intended purpose for the graphic organizer you provide AND that the students understand that they will be using the completed organizer for a specific purpose.
- Graphic organizers show students how to think about the information they are learning.
- They make new information manageable by enabling students to chunk it to fit into their existing memory.
- They help students build connections and explore relationships to what they already know.
- Organizers also help students recall information more readily.
There are so many ways they can be used...here are just a few: structure the note taking; generate ideas; record key text information; guide reading; select, sequence, restructure, and store information; organize ideas as a pre-writing tool; focus on what is important; and summarize learning.
Hover your cursor over the the small circles within my Graphic Organizer ThingLink to discover many resources you can use.
Be sure there is an intended purpose for the graphic organizer you provide AND that the students understand that they will be using the completed organizer for a specific purpose.
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