ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping
Lesson that teaches students how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template is linked.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/writing
This lesson uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with the...
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Greg Freeman: Brainstorming Web
Greg Freeman gives an example and explanation of the graphic diagram called "brainstorming web." Includes suggestions for effective use, working strategies, and useful links.
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Georgia Perimeter College: Concept Mapping
This resource provides detailed instruction on how to create concept maps, appropriate for older students who have never been introduced to concept mapping. It provides clear steps and an example of a partial concept map.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Concepts and Characteristics
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers. Students will be able to take notes via different concept maps.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Concept Map
This concept map is a way for you to show relationships between words and concepts. An arrow connecting two words shows that those words are related in some way. When you're finished, you can group words that go together with a circle or...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Instructional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides efficient notetaking tools. Students will learn notetaking strategies that will help them organize major concepts about literary works.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers: Concept Wheels
Webs for preparing to write including concept wheels with 4, 6, and 8 spokes.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: The Mind Mapping Teaching Strategy
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient learning strategy. Explanataions are provided about how graphic organizers can serve as mind mapping tools.
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Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Concept of Definition Map
Sometimes teaching students about creating definitions is difficult because they do not understand about multiple meanings or depth in meaning. This is a chance to teach students, using the concept map included, how to create definitions...
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University of Twente (Nl): Concept Mapping
Provides a great example of a concept map, along with information on concept mapping and mind mapping. Mentions the importance of prior knowledge in the integration of new information.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Concept Mapping
Learn how a concept map can help you pull together information you already know and, in the process, learn something new. Includes steps to concept mapping and a helpful example.