Differentiating With Graphic Organizers: Tools to Foster Critical and Creative Thinking

Use graphic organizers to challenge students, make learning exciting, and raise academic achievement!

This research-based resource shows how graphic organizers can strengthen students' critical and creative thinking skills and help differentiate instruction in the classroom. The author provides nine types of graphic organizers based on Bloom's taxonomy and sample applications for different subject areas and grade levels. With rubrics for providing quality feedback included, this hands-on guide demonstrates how teachers can:

• Promote the critical thinking processes of assuming, inferring, analyzing, prioritizing, and judging
• Encourage the creative thinking processes of brainstorming, connecting, creating, and elaborating
• Modify graphic organizers or create their own to meet individual learning needs