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g. Story maps
Story maps are graphic organizers that can be useful in helping students analyze or write a story. This type of analysis is especially good for examining
fables and folktales. Story map graphic organizers help the students identify the elements of the
story and the theme or moral of the story. Some of the many elements of a story include the important characters their appearance, personality traits, and
motivations, the setting of the story time and place, the problem faced by the characters, how the problem is approached, and the outcome.
There are many types of story maps that examine different elements of the story and reveal different structures within a story.
1. Some summarize the beginning, middle and end of a story. 2. Some list the 5 Ws: who, when, where, what, and why of a story.
3. Some list the title, setting, characters, the problem, the solution and the moral or theme of the story.
4. Some list a complex chain of events that summarize all key elements of the story, in chronological order.
5. Some, like a storyboard, are mostly pictorial, and illustrate the major events of a story in chronological order.
h. Chain diagrams
Chain diagrams also called sequence of events diagrams, are a type of graphic organizer that describe the stages or steps in a process.
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The students must be able to identify the first step in the process, all of the resulting stages in the procedure as they unfold, and the outcome the final stage.
In this process, the students realize how one step leads to the next in the process, and eventually, to the outcome.
Chain diagrams are useful in examining linear cause-and-effect processes and other processes that unfold sequentially.
Pictures 2.7 Chain Diagrams
i. Continuum or timeline diagrams
Continuum diagrams are a type of graphic organizer that is used to represent a continuum of data that occur in chronological time order or in
sequential order. If the topic has a definite beginning andor ending points and the data
points in between are not discrete, use a continuumtimeline. For example, a continuum or timeline diagram can be used to display
milestones in a persons life. In making a timeline, the students must first determine appropriate
endpoints for the timeline and important pointsdates to label on the continuum.
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3. The Benefits of Graphic Organizers a. Development of Higher Level Thought
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