Six Organizers at a Glance
Organizing Information is a type of analytical reading. Based on the writing prompt or learning objective, students reread sections of a text and make decisions about how to organize the essential ideas in a text.
To do this independently, students must learn to identify patterns or relationships in a text and represent that information in a graphical way. Students can use the Six Organizers at a Glance to select a graphic organizer that will help them organize the information in a text. Once selected, the organizer can be drawn or created by folding paper into the shape of the organizer.
Where is this in the Reading Process: Step 5
Explicitly Teach: Explain. Connect. Model. Practice.
Cycle of Independence: I do. We do. They do. You do.
Origin: First called advanced organizers, thought to originate with Ausubel's work on cognitive theory and meaningful learning (1960) and then further developed by Richard Barron in 1969 (Manoli and Papadopoulou 2012).
Six Organizers at a Glance Step-By-Step Process
Plan your lesson
Pathway
Teach the skill
Differentiate and support learning
Assess and track growth
Practice skills in all subjects
Literacy Standards In Action
We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.
