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Graphic Organizers
In education, a graphic organizer is a teaching tool that utilizes
information in different ways to better present data which are easy to
understand and internalize.
Educators use this teaching tool to help students better understand topics
which would be hard to comprehend without using one. Presented are
examples of graphic organizers and the descriptions within.

Type of Organizer Image Instructions

Persuasion Map How to use it

The persuasion map is Step 1: Choose a topic

an interactive graphic of interest for your
organizer that helps essay/debate. Do
students familiarize proper research around
themselves with the it to collect enough
process of persuasive information.
writing. It assists them
with outlining and Step 2: Define the claim
preparing arguments that you want to make
for their essays, with your essay. Start
speeches, debates, your persuasion map by
etc. writing this down first.

Step 3: Next to it, write

down the reasons for
making that claim.

Step 4: Then write down

facts, examples, and
information to back up
your reasoning.

Step 5: End your

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persuasion map with

the conclusion of your
essay.

Sequence Chart How to use it

A sequence graphic Step 1: Identify the

organizer is a tool that steps in the process or
helps visualize the event.
order of steps of a
process or a timeline Step 2: Using a
of events, etc. It can sequence chart,
also be used for arrange these steps in
note-taking, lesson sequential order.
planning, and essay
writing.

Story map How to use it

A story map can be Step 1: Read the book

used to identify the and understand it well.
different elements
such as characters, Step 2: Discuss the
character plots, different significant
themes, techniques, elements that were
etc. in a book students involved in the story.
are reading. It’s a These could be the
useful tool that characters, setting,
teachers can problem and solution,
integrate into the etc. You can fill the
lesson to improve story map during the
students’ discussion.
comprehension.
Step 3: Once the map is
complete you can
discuss each element
individually.
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Biography graphic How to create it

organizer
Step 1: Gather as much
This is a tool that assists information you can
with understanding a about the character
character from a you are studying. You
novel, autobiography can also refer to online
or movie or a historical resources, or ask from
figure more in-depth. teachers or experts.
It brings attention to
various important Step 2: As you analyze
factors about a the information you
person’s life. have gathered, isolate
the facts that stand out
or you think are
important.

Step 3: Use your

biography graphic
organizer to lay out the
information in a
presentable way. You
can add images to
make it more
comprehensible as
well.

KWL chart How to use it

KWL chart is used for Step 1: Get students to

gathering information brainstorm around the
from student’s prior selected topic and
knowledge or write down everything
experience. This 3 they know about it in
column chart the K column.
captures the before
(what the reader Step 2: Ask them to
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already knows), during generate a list of

(what the reader questions about what
wants to learn) and they want to know in
after (what the reader the W column of the
learned) stages of chart.
reading.
Step 3: During or after
reading the book/
lesson get them to
answer these questions
in the L column.

Analogy graphic How to use it

organizer
Step 1: Select a topic/
The analogy graphic concept that the
organizer uses students already know
analogy to help and is analogous in
students identify certain aspects to the
similarities and new topic
differences between a
new topic and a topic Step 2: Introduce the
that they are already new concept and get
familiar with. the students to read
and discuss it

Step 3: Using an
analogy graphic
organizer, ask the
students to brainstorm
and write similarities
and differences
between the two
topics.

Step 4: Based on the

completed graphic
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organizer, ask the

students to write a brief
description of the new
topic

Problem-solving How to use it

organizer
Step 1: Identify the
Problem-solving problem and write it in
graphic organizers the problem box
can be used to
improve the Step 2: Ask students to
problem-solving skills then write down why
of the students. It helps they think it is a
students identify and problem in the first
evaluate solutions to place
problems.
Step 3: Get them to
brainstorm all possible
solutions along with the
pros and cons relates to
them.

Step 4: Once they

select the best possible
solution, ask them to list
down all its possible
consequences

Step 5: Students can

then make suggestions
to improve the selected
solution further
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Timeline graphic How to use it

organizer
Timeline diagrams are
a type of graphic
organizer that shows a
sequence of events in
chronological order.
They come in handy
when studying history
as you can use it to
display major historical
events that occurred
during a period of
time along with
important details such
as dates and locations
in which they took
place.
Step 1: Identify the
different events and
the sequence of order
in which they took
place.
Step 2: Use a timeline
template to arrange
them chronologically
Step 3: Include
significant details such
as dates, locations and
other additional
information as needed.

In addition, timeline
charts can also be
used to show the
progress of something
(i.e. growth of a
business) or changes.
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T chart
T charts allow students
to study two facets of
a topic. For example,
disadvantages and
advantages, pros and
cons, differences and
similarities, etc.
Venn diagram
Another graphic
organizer that helps
you visually represent
a comparison of
differences and
similarities between
two subjects, is the
Venn diagram. What
makes it different from
the double bubble
map is that it can
include more than two
topics and one
common area.
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How to use it
Step 1: Draw a T chart
and write down the two
areas you want to
brainstorm around on
each column head.
Step 2: Write down
facts on each column
as you carry out your
brainstorming.
How to use it
It works similar to the
double bubble map.
Step 1: Write down the
topics being compared
on the top of each
circle.
Step 2: Writ down the
differences or unique
characteristics inside its
own sector avoiding
the overlapping area.
Step 3: List the
similarities in the
common area.
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Hierarchy chart How to use it

Hierarchy charts Step 1: Identify the most

visualize the elements important element
of a system, under the topic you are
organization or studying. Write this
concept from its down at the top of the
highest position to the hierarchy chart.
lowest. Students can
use this tool to Step 2: List down the
understand the second layer of
superordinate and sub-elements stemming
subordinate from the first
categories of a topic component you have
and the relationship identified. Add a third
between them. and fourth as
necessary.

Step 3: Connect these

with lines to show how
they are connected to
each other.

Links and Citations: https://creately.com/blog/diagrams/types-of-graphic

-organizers/

5 Graphic Organizers that I will use in teaching:

Type of Organizer Instructions Examples

Venn diagram How to use it Differentiate Poem and

Prose
Another graphic It works similar to the
organizer that helps you double bubble map. Differentiate Novel and a
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visually represent a short story
comparison of
differences and
similarities between two
subjects, is the Venn
diagram. What makes it
different from the
double bubble map is
that it can include more
than two topics and one
common area.
T chart
T charts allow students to
study two facets of a
topic. For example,
disadvantages and
advantages, pros and
cons, differences and
similarities, etc.
Biography graphic How to create it
organizer
This is a tool that assists
with understanding a
character from a novel,
autobiography or movie
or a historical figure
more in-depth. It brings
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on the top of each more a hero?
circle.
Step 2: Writ down the
differences or unique
characteristics inside its
own sector avoiding the
overlapping area.
Step 3: List the similarities
in the common area.
How to use it Pros and cons of Online
Class modality
Step 1: Draw a T chart
and write down the two Advantages and
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brainstorm around on bilingualism
each column head.
Step 2: Write down facts
on each column as you
carry out your
brainstorming.
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about the character you Edgar Allan Poe
are studying. You can
also refer to online William Shakespeare;
resources, or ask from the father of Sonnets
teachers or experts.
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attention to various
important factors about Step 2: As you analyze
a person’s life. the information you
have gathered, isolate
the facts that stand out
or you think are
important.

Step 3: Use your

biography graphic
organizer to lay out the
information in a
presentable way. You
can add images to
make it more
comprehensible as well.

Sequence Chart How to use it The Short Story Dead

Stars
A sequence graphic Step 1: Identify the steps
organizer is a tool that in the process or event. Flow of the story,
helps visualize the order Cinderella
of steps of a process or a Step 2: Using a
timeline of events, etc. It sequence chart,
can also be used for arrange these steps in
note-taking, lesson sequential order.
planning, and essay
writing.

Story map How to use it Story mapping of The

A story map can be
used to identify the
different elements such
as characters, character
plots, themes,
techniques, etc. in a
Little Prince by Antoine
Step 1: Read the book de Saint-Exupery
and understand it well.
Story mapping of Little
Step 2: Discuss the Red Riding hood
different significant
elements that were
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book students are involved in the story.

reading. It’s a useful tool These could be the
that teachers can characters, setting,
integrate into the lesson problem and solution,
to improve students’ etc. You can fill the story
comprehension. map during the
discussion.

Step 3: Once the map is

complete you can
discuss each element
individually.