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A Guide to Graphic Organizers

Helping Students Organize and Process Content for Deeper Learning

Second Edition
By: James Bellanca

Help students organize their thinking, process content, and work cooperatively!

This updated edition offers novice and veteran teachers a collection of 24 ready-to-use graphic organizers to enhance students' critical thinking skills across subject areas and grade levels. Featuring each graphic organizer in its own chapter, this resource includes lessons for introducing each learning tool to students and tips for maximizing their positive learning effects. Revised with current research, new graphic organizers, and a streamlined format, this edition also provides guidelines for using graphic organizers to:

Support cooperative learning groups
Help students process content
Effectively assess students' understanding of concepts

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412953009
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 264
Publication date: May 30, 2007

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"Creating a mindful rendering of student thinking with these graphic tools is at the heart of this extensive work. K–12 teachers will applaud this effort as they use these graphic organizers in rich and relevant instructional activities."
—Robin Fogarty, Educational Consultant and Author

"An excellent aid in teaching students to gather and process data systematically, develop critical thinking skills, and become actively engaged learners."
—Mary Jo Johnson, Educational Evaluator, North Carolina School for the Deaf, Morganton, NC

Help students organize their thinking, process content, and work cooperatively!

Graphic organizers are effective, research-validated tools for supporting student achievement, promoting students' higher-level thinking, and strengthening learners' visual and metacognitive skills.

In this combined update of The Cooperative Think Tank I and II, James Bellanca offers teachers a collection of 24 ready-to-use graphic organizers to enhance student learning across subject areas and grade levels. Presenting each graphic organizer in its own chapter, the author includes lessons for introducing these engaging learning tools to students and offers tips for maximizing their positive learning effects.

Revised with current research, new graphic organizers, and a streamlined format, this edition also provides guidelines for using graphic organizers to:

Support cooperative learning groups
Help students process content
Effectively assess students' understanding of concepts

For novice teachers or seasoned veterans, Bellanca's extensive collection is the ideal guide to help you integrate graphic organizers into daily instruction.

Author(s)

James Bellanca

James Bellanca is a life-long advocate for the principles and practices created by Reuven Feuerstein. As a Senior Fellow for the Partnership for 21^st Century Learning, he created and edits the innovative P21Blogazine. He is the editor of a series of 21^st Century Deeper Learning collections, has authored more than a dozen how-to books aimed to infuse critical and creative thinking across the curriculum and is President of the Illinois Consortium for 21^st Century Schools.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

1. KWL

2. Web

3. Sequence Chart

4. Starburst

5. Gathering Grid

6. 5+1 Newspaper

7. Jigsaw

8. Ranking Ladder

9. Scale

10. PMI

11. Venn Diagram

12. Spider Map

13. Classification Grid

14. Agree-Disagree Chart

15. Prediction Tree

16. Decision Maker's Flow Chart

17. Concept Map

18. Fishbone Analyzer

19. Problem-Solving Chart

20. Two-Way Thinking Tower

21. Classification Flow Chart

22. Right Angle

23. Inference Funnel

24. What?s the Big Idea?

25. Invent Your Own Graphic Organizer

26. Graphic Organizers: Tools for Lifelong Thinking and Learning

27. Skillful Thinking Is Not an Accident

28. Promoting Students' Thinking About Their Thinking

29. Developing the Quality of Student Thinking

30. Using Graphic Organizers With Learning Groups

31. The Multiple Uses of Graphic Organizers in Assessment

32. No Child Left Behind and Research

Appendix: Electronic Resources

Bibliography

Reviews

"An excellent aid in teaching students to gather data systematically and process data in an organized way, developing critical thinking skills and actively engaged learners."

Mary Jo Johnson, Educational Evaluator
North Carolina School for the Deaf, Morganton, NC

"Seeing 'exactly and explicitly' what students are saying by creating a mindful rendering of thinking with these graphic tools is at the heart of this extensive work. K-12 teachers will applaud this effort as they use these graphic organizers in rich and relevant instructional activities."

Robin Fogarty, Educational Consultant and Author

"These worksheets and applications cross grade levels from elementary to middle school on up. An outstanding survey highly recommended for any college-level education library or collection catering to practicing teachers."

California Bookwatch, September 2007

"The diagram are clearly done, and the overall layout of the book is very accessible. Teachers can make good use of the book for its collection of clear graphic organizer masters."

Education Libraries, Spring 2008, Vol. 30(3)

"The importance of visual aids in nurturing lifelong learning is a central theme of this book, which focuses on building skilled thinking."

Curriculum Connections, Spring 2008
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