TASK 1: UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

In Learning Activity 3, you are to explore one form of text types commonly
found in academic interactions; that is the graphic organizers or GOs. How
much do you know about this text type? Why is it necessary for you to be
knowledgeable and skillful in working with it?

A GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS QUIZ. Do the quiz. Write a T at the end of

each statement when you think the statement is TRUE; or an F when
you think it is FALSE. One of them has been done for you.

STATEMENTS T/F
1 A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates relationships T
between facts, concepts or ideas.
2 Graphic organizer or GO is a term to describe all visual learning
strategies such as concept mapping, webbing, mind mapping, and
more.
3 GO is used to “map out” ideas using different structures depending
on the purpose of the task.
4 GO helps readers/listeners understand information more quickly as
they are forced to identify key information and chunk that
information into meaningful units;
5 GO presents more memorable information to readers/listeners since
relationships between various facts and ideas are visually reinforced.
6 GO can be used as presentation tools to communicate information.
7 GO is also a useful learning tool to help in note-taking and planning
presentations.
8 GO can serve different social function or communicative purpose;
e.g. to explain, to describe, or to show similarities and differences.
9 Teachers can use GO to help present their teaching materials to
students.
10 Teachers can develop students’ visual literacy by involving them in
comprehending and presenting information in GOs.
B Read and view the following resources check your answers to the quiz
in section A:

 Graphic Organizers: What, Why, How. Michael Hensley1

 Graphic Organizers. The Learning Portal/Le Portail d’Apprentissage 2
 Inspiration Software, Inc. (2018) Teaching and learning with graphic organizers 3
 The Iris Center. Graphic Organizers4

1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xsCE4kkb0
2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ziHOwH-2c
3 http://www.inspiration.com/visual-learning/graphic-organizers
4 https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/wp-
content/uploads/pdf_activities/independent/IA_Graphic_Organizers.pdf