I love to use Graphic Organizers with all the writing we do! Recently, I have been trying to incorporate using graphic organizers with even my youngest Kinder ELL students to support their writing. One great way I found to do this was doing more hands-on organizers with which the students can practice organizing the information on a larger scale together. We recently did a mini-unit on the different animal groups. We created this graphic organizer after reading our
Animal Groups Emergent Reader and watching this excellent BrainPop Jr. video about animal classification.
Last, students wrote their own animal facts about their chosen group using
these awesome writing sheets from
www.firstgradewindows.blogspot.com .The students were able to gain a lot of content vocabulary and loved the hands-on approach! Please add comments on how you use graphic organizers with young students.
