Enhancing Student's Skills
A review study concluded that using graphic organizers improves student performance in the following areas:
- Retention
- Students remember information better and can better recall it when it is represented and learned both visually and verbally.
- Reading comprehension
- The use of graphic organizers helps improving the reading comprehension of students.
- Student achievement
- Students with and without learning disabilities improve achievement across content areas and grade levels.
- Thinking and learning skills; critical thinking
- When students develop and use a graphic organizer their higher order thinking and critical thinking skills are enhanced.
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