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The Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers: 100 Reproducible Organizers that Help Kids with Reading, Writing, and the Content Areas
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. The author Katherine McKnight is a noted literacy educator.
224 pages, Paperback
First published May 21, 2010
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January 8, 2012
Unlike Jim Burke's Tools for Thought: Graphic Organizers for Your Classroom, which is amazing in it's own way for it's preciseness and attention to analysis this book, though perhaps not intentional, is geared towards a different type of student.
I don't think Burke's graphic organizers are appropriate for ESL students or high school students that can barely read at a 6th grade level. These are some of the issues many teachers contend with and the graphic organizers in McKnight's book are accessible to these very same students. Many students may not be at the academic level you'd expect a high schooler to be at when considering cognitive abilities and background knowledge. However, instead of being politically correct and pretending that everyone is academically equal to each other, this simple graphic organizer actually differentiates instruction for those students who are struggling academically or have recently begun to learn the English language.
Was that McKnight's intention?
I doubt it. I think she really wanted to create a book of graphic organizers that teachers from different subjects and grade levels could use.
Some of the organizers are even online, which you are given a link too.
If you teach ESL or struggling students it's a nice book to have, because even if the graphic organizer doesn't fit your needs 100% of the way, they are much easier to modify than Jim Burke's book.
I don't think Burke's graphic organizers are appropriate for ESL students or high school students that can barely read at a 6th grade level. These are some of the issues many teachers contend with and the graphic organizers in McKnight's book are accessible to these very same students. Many students may not be at the academic level you'd expect a high schooler to be at when considering cognitive abilities and background knowledge. However, instead of being politically correct and pretending that everyone is academically equal to each other, this simple graphic organizer actually differentiates instruction for those students who are struggling academically or have recently begun to learn the English language.
Was that McKnight's intention?
I doubt it. I think she really wanted to create a book of graphic organizers that teachers from different subjects and grade levels could use.
Some of the organizers are even online, which you are given a link too.
If you teach ESL or struggling students it's a nice book to have, because even if the graphic organizer doesn't fit your needs 100% of the way, they are much easier to modify than Jim Burke's book.
July 9, 2012
Usable, but the organizers aren't anything novel. Also, I could easily make many of these organizers myself - and better customized for the activity at hand - in 15 minutes on Microsoft Word. A few small careless errors as well (e.g. a subtitle incorrectly copied from a previous organizer).
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