100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learn Graphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5—double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can be used as before learning, during learning, or after learning activities, and support students' learning in the major content areas: English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Teachers can use each graphic organizer as-is or customize for their own classroom's unique needs. Tips for classroom implementation and information on how the tool supports learning A Difficulty Dial that indicates the complexity of each graphic organizer Two Student Samples demonstrating how the organizer may be used with younger and older students This book gives teachers in grades K-5 a powerful way to help students understand relationships between facts, terms, and ideas.
All the graphic organizers offered in this book promote active learning, which is central to effective learning. Using the organizers as guides, students are prompted to ask questions and are encouraged to apply critical thinking skills.
This book is a follow-up to McKnight's popular The Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers, Grades 6-12, which won Learning magazine's Teacher's Choice Award for 2013.
Offers forms for fourth- to eighth-grade English, math, science, and social science classes
58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way.
Designed to exercise a particular thinking skill, each of these adorable learning tools will help students learn to think, write, and plan.
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.
Ms. Walker selected a concept/definition map, knowing that it would deepen students' understanding of the term and be a boon to their comprehension of the readings throughout the unit. Her goal was to have them understand the term well ...
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.
Offers advice for using fifty graphic organizers to promote critical thinking skills in subjects ranging from language arts and social studies to science and mathematics.
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.