Summary By Traci Tarquinio
Summary by Traci Tarquinio of an excerpt from “Mining Complex Text: Using and Creating Graphic Organizers to Grasp Content and Share New Understanding”
The book Mining Complext Text was published in early 2015 by Corwin Literacy. The authors, Professors Diane Lapp, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Karen Wood, and Kelly Johnson claim, that graphic organizers facilitate reading comprehension and help readers communicate their new found knowledge. The authors share research that supports the use of graphic organizers in the second chapter titled Thinking on the Page, in the first two sections, The Research behind Why Graphic Organizers Work and Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning.
The authors begin by stating that graphic organizers
The book Mining Complext Text was published in early 2015 by Corwin Literacy. The authors, Professors Diane Lapp, Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Karen Wood, and Kelly Johnson claim, that graphic organizers facilitate reading comprehension and help readers communicate their new found knowledge. The authors share research that supports the use of graphic organizers in the second chapter titled Thinking on the Page, in the first two sections, The Research behind Why Graphic Organizers Work and Picture This: Visuals Quicken and Deepen Text Learning.
The authors begin by stating that graphic organizers