Classroom Instruction part of the Education Reform Network

Research on Graphic Organizers

• Concept Maps: Finding Our Way on the Road to a Standards-Based Classroom
  Students from different cultural backgrounds and varied learning styles can benefit from using traditional and non-traditional methods to express their ideas about what they are learning, pictorally, graphically, and orally. Visual representations, such as concept maps, allow students to to share their ideas and explain, clarify, and justify what they are learning, represent their ideas visually, and show the connections between concepts.
• Elevation Educational Consulting
  Works with individual teachers, schools, districts to evaluate and improve literacy programs and instruction.
• Graphic Organizers
  An introduction to graphic organizers-what they are, how they are used, when to use them - with selected web sites featuring graphic organizers in different subject matter areas.
• Nonlinguistic Representations
  Chapter 6 of Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert J. Marzano, Debra J.