Graphic Organizers• Broadly defined, graphic organizers are visual devices that

provide a variety of organizational structures and categorization patterns for the learning of language and content. The most prominent learning objective is increased comprehension and/or language production. An additional oft-stated objective is an identification of the relationships between concepts. Common examples of graphic organizers include KWL charts (What do you know?; What do you want to know?; What have you Learned), Venn diagrams, matrices, concept maps, tree diagrams, and information flow charts (Bromley, DeVitis & Modlo, M., 1999; Egan, 1999; Merkley & Jeffries, 2000; Rice, 1994; Robinson, 1998).

Four Basic Types and Two Specific Use Types

Two Specific Use Types are the Venn Diagram and the KWL Chart, both of which you may have seen before.

The Basic Four Types are:1.Tree Diagram2. Concept Map3.Matrix4. Flow Chart

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Venn Diagram

KWL Chart

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What do you know?

W

What do you want to know?

L

What did did you learn?

Tree Diagram

Another Tree Diagram

A Tree Diagram from a Summary

Concept Map

Matrix

Flow Chart

Flow Chart

Flow Chart