Reading and Writing Skills - Graphic Organizers

It is a technique to generate ideas within a group or individual setting.

It provides a quick means for tapping the ideas and concepts of an individual or of a group then helps establish patterns and develop relationship among these concepts.

It serves as a road map or blueprint when writing. It helps organize the ideas as it shows the hierarchical relationship or logical ordering of information.

They are visuals and graphic displays that show the relationships among concepts or ideas.

It shows two or more subject areas which occurred at the same time; it shows readers the "big picture."

The logical arrangement of ideas that helps you follow ideas easily and understand a text better.

This pattern explains the information through the use of illustrations, examples, and descriptions.

A pattern basically provides details on the idea by using either a sensory or spatial pattern.

A pattern presents the general statement and then provides specific and concrete examples to expound on the main idea.

This pattern organizers ideas using enumeration and it basically presents a series of items (facts,

examples, features, reasons, and tips) that support a main idea.

This pattern organizers ideas into problems and proposed solutions.

This pattern organizes ideas to show how a set of evidence leads to a logical conclusion or argument.

This pattern that organizes details based on the cause, the reason, and the result or consequences of a certain phenomenon.

The information in the paragraph is organized to emphasize certain points depending on the writer’s purpose.

The details are organized in the order which they happened.

What do you call an order in which the sentences of a paragraph are organized according to the geographical location such as left to right up to down etc.

This pattern organizes ideas or events according to time. It can either be in the form of a narration or a process.

It is a group of interrelated sentences that talk about one main idea while an essay is a group of paragraphs that talk about one main idea.

A paragraph that does not directly support to a thesis statement is included in an essay. Its major function is to bridge one paragraph to another.

It is a type of a sentence in which it links the lead to the thesis statement.