Mining Complex Text, Grades 6-12

Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understandings
Diane K. Lapp - San Diego State University, USA
Thomas DeVere Wolsey
Karen D. Wood
Kelly Johnson
Corwin Literacy
Mining Complex Text, Grades 6-12
October 2014 | 192 pages | Corwin
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“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ . . . In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”

—DOUGLAS FISHER
Coauthor of Rigorous Reading

Imagine you are a fourth grader, reading about our solar system for the first time. Or you’re a high school student, asked to compare survival in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Reading complex texts of any kind is arduous, and now more than ever, students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking, talking, and writing around their reading. If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.

Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Texts, Grades 2-5 and 6-12, a formidable author team shares fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning.  Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:

  • Help students read, reread, and take notes on a text
  • Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas 
  • Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)
  • Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing
  • Move students to independent thinking as they learn to create their own organizing and note-taking systems

Gone are the days of fill-‘em-in and forget-‘em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.

Contents

Acknowledgments

  • Chapter 1. Graphic Organizers: Making the Complex Comprehensible
  • How to Think About Standards Alignment
  • How to Help Students Meet the Standards
  • Tips for Using Graphic Organizers Dynamically
  • How to Meet Eight Intertwined Academic Goals
  • What Lies Ahead in This Book
  • Chapter 2. Thinking on the Page: The Research Behind Why Graphic Organizers Work
  • Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning
  • General Tips: How to Use Graphic Organizers Well
  • Tiered Organizers: Scaffold Student Progress
  • Examples of Tiered Graphics Organizers
  • Adapting Graphic Organizers for Tiered Learning
  • A Sample Tiered Lesson
  • At-a-Glance Chart of Graphic Organizers Matched to Academic Goals
  • Chapter 3. Using Graphic Organizers to Acquire Academic Vocabulary
  • Frayer Organizer
  • Vocabulary Triangle
  • Concept/Definition Map
  • Word Map
  • Chapter 4. Graphic Organizers Support Literary Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Freytag’s Pyramid
  • Chapter 5. Graphic Organizers Support Informational Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Text Search and Find Board
  • 4-Square With a Diamond
  • Modified KWL
  • Chapter 6. Graphic Organizers Support Students’ Reading Proficiencies
  • Note-Card Organizer
  • Tabbed Book Manipulative
  • Somebody-Wanted-But-So
  • Understanding Text Structures: Five Text Types
  • Rereading Organizer
  • Chapter 7. Graphic Organizers Boost Questioning and Responding
  • I-Chart and I-Guide
  • Flip Chart Manipulative
  • Text-Dependent Question/Response Organizer
  • Chapter 8. Graphic Organizers Foster Understanding and Writing Arguments
  • Seven-Part Graphic Organizer for Composing an Argument
  • Thinking Map
  • Chapter 9. Graphic Organizers Support Collaboration
  • Project Management Organizer

Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

References

References

Index

Index

Description

“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ . . . In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”

—DOUGLAS FISHER
Coauthor of Rigorous Reading

Imagine you are a fourth grader, reading about our solar system for the first time. Or you’re a high school student, asked to compare survival in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Reading complex texts of any kind is arduous, and now more than ever, students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking, talking, and writing around their reading. If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.

Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Texts, Grades 2-5 and 6-12, a formidable author team shares fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning.  Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:

  • Help students read, reread, and take notes on a text
  • Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas 
  • Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)
  • Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing
  • Move students to independent thinking as they learn to create their own organizing and note-taking systems

Gone are the days of fill-‘em-in and forget-‘em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.

Contents

Acknowledgments

  • Chapter 1. Graphic Organizers: Making the Complex Comprehensible
  • How to Think About Standards Alignment
  • How to Help Students Meet the Standards
  • Tips for Using Graphic Organizers Dynamically
  • How to Meet Eight Intertwined Academic Goals
  • What Lies Ahead in This Book
  • Chapter 2. Thinking on the Page: The Research Behind Why Graphic Organizers Work
  • Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning
  • General Tips: How to Use Graphic Organizers Well
  • Tiered Organizers: Scaffold Student Progress
  • Examples of Tiered Graphics Organizers
  • Adapting Graphic Organizers for Tiered Learning
  • A Sample Tiered Lesson
  • At-a-Glance Chart of Graphic Organizers Matched to Academic Goals
  • Chapter 3. Using Graphic Organizers to Acquire Academic Vocabulary
  • Frayer Organizer
  • Vocabulary Triangle
  • Concept/Definition Map
  • Word Map
  • Chapter 4. Graphic Organizers Support Literary Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Freytag’s Pyramid
  • Chapter 5. Graphic Organizers Support Informational Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Text Search and Find Board
  • 4-Square With a Diamond
  • Modified KWL
  • Chapter 6. Graphic Organizers Support Students’ Reading Proficiencies
  • Note-Card Organizer
  • Tabbed Book Manipulative
  • Somebody-Wanted-But-So
  • Understanding Text Structures: Five Text Types
  • Rereading Organizer
  • Chapter 7. Graphic Organizers Boost Questioning and Responding
  • I-Chart and I-Guide
  • Flip Chart Manipulative
  • Text-Dependent Question/Response Organizer
  • Chapter 8. Graphic Organizers Foster Understanding and Writing Arguments
  • Seven-Part Graphic Organizer for Composing an Argument
  • Thinking Map
  • Chapter 9. Graphic Organizers Support Collaboration
  • Project Management Organizer

Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

References

References

Index

Index

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Mining Complex Text, Grades 6-12

Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understandings

Diane K. Lapp , Thomas DeVere Wolsey , Karen D. Wood , Kelly Johnson
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“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ . . . In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”

—DOUGLAS FISHER
Coauthor of Rigorous Reading

Imagine you are a fourth grader, reading about our solar system for the first time. Or you’re a high school student, asked to compare survival in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Reading complex texts of any kind is arduous, and now more than ever, students are being asked to do highly advanced thinking, talking, and writing around their reading. If only there were ingenious new power tools that could give students the space to tease apart complex ideas in order to comprehend and to weld their understandings into a new whole.

Good news: such tools exist. In the two volumes, Mining Complex Texts, Grades 2-5 and 6-12, a formidable author team shares fresh ways to use the best digital and print graphic organizers in whole-class, small-group, and independent learning.  Big believers of the gradual release method, the authors roll out dozens of examples of dynamic lessons and collaborative work across the content areas so that we see the process of using these visual tools to:

  • Help students read, reread, and take notes on a text
  • Promote students’ oral sharing of information and their ideas 
  • Elevate organized note-making from complex text(s)
  • Scaffold students’ narrative and informational writing
  • Move students to independent thinking as they learn to create their own organizing and note-taking systems

Gone are the days of fill-‘em-in and forget-‘em graphic organizers. With these two volumes, teachers and professional development leaders have a unified vision of how to use these tools to meet the demands of an information-saturated world, one in which students need to be able to sift, sort, synthesize, and apply knowledge with alacrity and skill.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Graphic Organizers: Making the Complex Comprehensible
  • How to Think About Standards Alignment
  • How to Help Students Meet the Standards
  • Tips for Using Graphic Organizers Dynamically
  • How to Meet Eight Intertwined Academic Goals
  • What Lies Ahead in This Book
  • Chapter 2. Thinking on the Page: The Research Behind Why Graphic Organizers Work
  • Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning
  • General Tips: How to Use Graphic Organizers Well
  • Tiered Organizers: Scaffold Student Progress
  • Examples of Tiered Graphics Organizers
  • Adapting Graphic Organizers for Tiered Learning
  • A Sample Tiered Lesson
  • At-a-Glance Chart of Graphic Organizers Matched to Academic Goals
  • Chapter 3. Using Graphic Organizers to Acquire Academic Vocabulary
  • Frayer Organizer
  • Vocabulary Triangle
  • Concept/Definition Map
  • Word Map
  • Chapter 4. Graphic Organizers Support Literary Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Freytag’s Pyramid
  • Chapter 5. Graphic Organizers Support Informational Text Reading and Writing Tasks
  • Text Search and Find Board
  • 4-Square With a Diamond
  • Modified KWL
  • Chapter 6. Graphic Organizers Support Students’ Reading Proficiencies
  • Note-Card Organizer
  • Tabbed Book Manipulative
  • Somebody-Wanted-But-So
  • Understanding Text Structures: Five Text Types
  • Rereading Organizer
  • Chapter 7. Graphic Organizers Boost Questioning and Responding
  • I-Chart and I-Guide
  • Flip Chart Manipulative
  • Text-Dependent Question/Response Organizer
  • Chapter 8. Graphic Organizers Foster Understanding and Writing Arguments
  • Seven-Part Graphic Organizer for Composing an Argument
  • Thinking Map
  • Chapter 9. Graphic Organizers Support Collaboration
  • Project Management Organizer
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

“How many times have you heard ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ Visual, graphic information is important because human brains are hard-wired to attend to images. The challenge is that students still have to read words to achieve success. In this text, Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson make a vital connection between reading words and the role of graphics. They demonstrate how teachers and students can blend the two such that great learning occurs in every classroom, every day.”
DOUGLAS FISHER, Coauthor of Rigorous Reading
“Lapp, Wolsey, Wood, and Johnson have written a book that will become the resource for using graphic organizers across disciplines! With careful attention to the details teachers crave in order to design meaningful lessons, the authors guide teachers on a journey that takes them far beyond the traditional uses of graphic organizers—jotting notes and organizing information—and show teachers how these visual tools lead students to independent thinking and inquiry, as well as support the Common Core reading and writing standards. What I love about this book is that it fosters original thinking among students as they design graphic organizers that enable them to unpack meaning from complex texts and develop arguments for essays.”
LAURA ROBB, Author of Vocabulary Is Comprehension
“Professional books have long urged teachers to use graphic organizers, but most of these books are dreadfully short on specifics. Diane Lapp and her colleagues have addressed this problem in an admirable fashion. They examine with care the kinds of organizers available to teachers, together with when and how to use them. And by showing how organizers transcend disciplinary boundaries, the authors pave the way for a school-wide focus for professional learning. Educators endeavoring to meet the challenges of the Common Core should mark this title as a must-read. This engaging book is long overdue and I recommend it enthusiastically!”
MICHAEL MCKENNA, Coauthor of Assessment for Reading Instruction, Second Edition
“For educators looking for ways to implement graphic organizers in their classrooms, this is the resource for you. The numerous types of graphic organizers, the research behind them, and the how and why to use them with students are all at your fingertips. I envision this book being especially helpful for teachers new to the field just learning about graphic organizers.”
LESLIE BLAUMAN, Author of The Common Core Companion, Grades 3-5

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