Graphic Organizers

• Star/web: Use to show definitions, attributes, examples, and brainstorming
• Chart/Matrix: Use to show attributes, comparing and contrasting, and evaluating.
• Tree/Map: Use to show classifications, pedigrees, analysis, structures, attributes, examples, and brainstorming.
• Chain: Use to show processes, sequences, causes and effects, and chronology.
• Sketch: Use to show physical structures, descriptions of places, spatial relationships, concrete objects, and visual images.

Bridging Snapshots	CerebralChart	Sketch
Compare/Contrast Matrix	Network Tree	Spider Map
Continuum Scale	PMI	Synectics
Cycle	Problem/Solution Outline	T-Chart
Fishbone Map	Questions	Venn Diagram
Human Interaction Outline	Ranking	Web
KWLH	Series of Events Chain

• Analyze 1. to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument. 2. to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of: to analyze a poem. 3. to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc. (Webster's. p 74)
• Brainstorm a sudden impulse, idea, etc.: brainstorming - a conference technique of solving specific problems, amassing information, stimulating creative thinking, developing new ideas, etc., by unrestrained and spontaneous participation in discussion (Webster's. p 253).
• Compare and Contrast compare - to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences; to compare two pieces of literary work (Webster's. p 416): contrast - to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks (Webster's. p 442).
• Evaluate 1. to determine or set the value of amount of; appraise: to evaluate property. 2. to judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of; assess; to evaluate the results of an experiment (Webster's. p 670).
• Hypothesize 1. to form a hypothesis. 2. to assume by hypothesis - hypothesis - 1. a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigating (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts. 2. a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument. 3. the antecedent of a conditional proposition. 4. a mere assumption or guess (Webster's. p 944).
• Interact to act one upon another. interaction - reciprocal action, effect, or influence (Webster's. p 992).
• Sequence 1. the following of one thing after another; succession. 2. order of succession: a list of books in alphabetical sequence. 3. a continuous or connected series: a sonnet sequence. 4. something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence (Webster's. p 1747).
• Visualize 1. to recall or form mental images or pictures. 2. to make visual or visible. 3. to form a mental image of. 4. to make perceptible to the mind or imagination (Webster's. p 2127).

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