The Elementary Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers, K-5 E-Book

Katherine S. McKnight

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learn

Graphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5—double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can be used as before learning, during learning, or after learning activities, and support students' learning in the major content areas: English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Teachers can use each graphic organizer as-is or customize for their own classroom's unique needs.

• Tips for classroom implementation and information on how the tool supports learning
• A Difficulty Dial that indicates the complexity of each graphic organizer
• Two Student Samples demonstrating how the organizer may be used with younger and older students

This book gives teachers in grades K-5 a powerful way to help students understand relationships between facts, terms, and ideas.

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First Edition

For Jim, Ellie, and Colin, who bring joy to my life.

Acknowledgments

My mom, a teacher for over thirty-five years in the Chicago Public Schools, would often remind me that teaching is an act of love and social justice. Her wise words are reminders to me of why we became teachers. It's always about our students and discovering the most effective teaching and learning strategies that will support our students to learn new skills and develop greater understandings. This volume is a resource that I hope will inspire and support effective and engaging teaching for the K–5 classroom.

There are many individuals whom I wish to thank who have supported my efforts to make this book a valuable teaching resource. Ellie McKnight, Celia Woldt, Laura Woldt, Olivia Doe, and Sydney Lawson were instrumental in making the student samples feature a success. I also need to thank Anna Johnson, who helped me discover the graphic possibilities of my ideas. Anna can make sense of my most muddled drawings and ideas and turn them into beautiful artistic representations. Elaine Carlson, a dear friend and fellow Girl Scout mom, offered her expert editing skills as I prepared the final manuscript. I also would like to thank my husband, Jim, whose love for me and patience for my work allows me to be the educator I want and need to be. Colin, my son, is a constant reminder that even when our work is challenging, we educators must remember that all children are beautifully different. I am also grateful for my daughter, Ellie, whose love of learning is infectious and inspiring. Ellie is always a good sport when I want to try our graphic organizer ideas with her and her friends.

I am grateful to the supportive staff at Jossey-Bass. Justin Frahm is masterful in the layout and production elements. It is a joy to work with an editor like Margie McAneny. This is the sixth book that she has edited with me, and no author could ask for a better editor than Margie.

Finally, I want to share my story of my sister's inspiration to so many writers. Mary Siewert Scruggs (1964–2011) was my sister, coauthor for The Second City Guide to Improv in the Classroom, and a great writer, performer, mom, wife, and teacher. She inspired a generation of writers through her work at Second City in Chicago and left a full legacy for one who left us too early. Mary was always the first person I turned to when I had to work out writing demons and challenges, and the first person I called when a new book was published. Because she was a great teacher, her words live on through the writing of so many others.

A Message from the Author

Ever since I published my book The Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers, Grades 5–12 (recipient of the 2013 Teachers' Choice Award), I've had elementary teachers coming to me asking for a book they could use with their students. I drew upon my years of classroom experience, interviewed scores of elementary teachers and observed their classrooms, and even experimented on my own children and their friends. The result is this compendium of graphic organizers for students in grades K–5.

There are many tips and suggestions for using these graphic organizers throughout the book. But the strongest advice I can offer teachers and parents is to use your imaginations! There is rarely one and only one appropriate use for any organizer. I have organized them in a way that focuses on the skill set being developed, rather than just on the subject matter for which they are most appropriate. But the possible applications are many and varied. For example, the Food Chain Organizer (GO 41) can be useful for illustrating a sequence of events in science class, plotting a story in literacy class, identifying the steps in a math problem, or clarifying the important steps of a historical event. The vocabulary development organizers in Chapter Three can be used as tools for mastering new vocabulary in any subject. A Venn diagram (GO 2 and GO 3) is useful whether comparing two fictional characters in literature class or two cloud formations in science class. All of the cause-and-effect graphic organizers (GO 4, GO 5, and GO 90) are valuable, whether a student is considering the details of an American Revolutionary War battle, the effect of rain on a desert, or a fictionalized account of St. George slaying a dragon. In the final chapter I include a number of graphic organizers that have been developed with specific content matter in mind. But even these—social studies graphic organizers, science graphic organizers, and mathematics graphic organizers—can sometimes have applications in other areas of study. Elementary school students are creative and malleable, and these graphic organizers can match them turn for turn.

Dr. Katherine McKnight