Using Graphic Organizers to Improve Reading Comprehension in the Content Areas, Grades 5-6
Students can practice analyzing nonfiction texts by using visual symbols to represent ideas and concepts and learn to engage in information processing and higher-order thinking skills. Lesson contains a blank organizer and a completed organizer with sample answers provided. Book includes differentiated instruction strategies and an interactive CD that allows organizers to be completed on a classroom whiteboard, computer projection device, or desktop computer. Activities are correlated to state, national, and Canadian provincial standards. 80 pages.

Grade Level: 5, 6