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Advance Graphic Organizer

Overview

Advance graphic organizers link prior knowledge to upcoming learning to help students anticipate and understand the structure of new information. Using advance graphic organizers, such as Know/Want-to-Know/Learned (KWL), can help students learn content and skills more deeply by connecting their Working and Long-term Memories.

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  • Starting a new reading by connecting it with prior knowledge helps learners activate their Background Knowledge. Teachers can provide visuals for students to organize their knowledge to see how new information connects, to notice patterns in what they learn, and to predict new connections. Additionally, using an advance graphic organizer prior to writing explicitly shows different ways to structure a text and reduces Working Memory load as students write.

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  • Developers can provide tools that allow students to make their own graphic organizers. By creating a visual tool, learners consider patterns and connections even more deeply as they apply their Background Knowledge and practice their Inferencing.

    • Factors Supported by this Strategy

    Learner Background
    Safety
    Background Knowledge
    Socioeconomic Status
    Sleep
    Physical Well-being
    Primary Language
    Adverse Experiences
    Social and Emotional Learning
    Motivation
    Cognition
    Speed of Processing
    Short-term Memory
    Working Memory
    Inhibition
    Long-term Memory
    Metacognition
    Attention
    Literacy

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