Integrating This Into Your Lessons
Students are given a visual organizer that illustrates the type of thinking required for a task (e.g. Venn Diagram for comparison or story map for sequencing)
A graphic organizer is a popular type of help resource. To be effective, students much understand the specific type of thinking the graphic organizer facilitates. Students should monitor changes in their work and responses when they use or don’t use the graphic organizer so that they can measure the impact of graphic organizers on their learning.