The Use of Graphic Organizers in the Prewriting Phase
Graphic organizers can indeed help students classify ideas and communicate more effectively. They can also be used to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making and brainstorming.
Graphic organizers can be used to help students write reports and essays in the classroom. As a prewriting strategy, using graphic organizers can help students organize their thoughts so that they have a clear picture of what they are going to write. As a result, essays done from using graphic organizers as a prewriting strategy are clearer and more focused.
Several types of graphic organizers were presented – and I did not know there were so many! After going through all of them, I however began to realize that some were more suited to specific genres of writing. For example, a spider map and a problem/ solution organizer can be very useful in helping students organize ideas for an expository piece. Story board or chain of events graphic organizers can help students organize their ideas for expository writing.
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