Content Area Lessons Using Graphic Organizers

Teaching lessons that meet the standards for your grade level in reading, writing, science, geography, history and math.

Teaching lessons that meet the standards for your grade level in reading, writing, science, geography, history and math.

Teaching lessons that meet the standards for your grade level in reading, writing, science, geography, history and math.

Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information. Providing a visual representation that uses symbols to express ideas, concepts, and convey meaning, graphic organizers help to depict relationships between facts, terms, and ideas. The author demonstrates how graphic organizers have proven to be a powerful teaching and learning strategy. Includes 100 graphic organizers-more than any comparable book Included graphic organizers can be used before-, during-, and after-learning activities across the content areas Contains easy-to-follow instructions for teachers on how to use and adapt the book's graphic organizers Offers strategies for teachers to create their own graphic organizers for different grade levels The author Katherine McKnight is a noted literacy educator.

Teaching lessons that meet the standards for your grade level in reading, writing, science, geography, history and math.

Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.

Teaching lessons that meet the standards for your grade level in reading, writing, science, geography, history and math.

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.