Monday, March 31, 2025

Using Graphic Organisers in DVC

 In our PD sessions on Monday mornings, we have had 3 about literacy and how we can use graphic organisers to help students with understanding what they are reading. Session 1 , Session 2, Session 3.

I am a big fan of graphic organisers and have been using them for quite a while with my Year 11, 12 and 13 DVC classes. I am also a big fan of using SOLO taxonomy to structure support documents for students so any graphic organisers tend to use SOLO quite a lot. Link to recourses

Here are some examples of student work that has been done this term using graphic organisers. (I have made copies of them so the name of the student is removed)

Year 12 Examples

Compare and Contrast - this is the template that I give to the students to compare their chosen design era with another one.

Link to template

Link to support on class site



Here are 2 student examples

Link to drawing






Hexagons - this is the template that I give to the students to group together all the same aspects of their chosen design era.



Here are 2 student examples




Link to presentation




Timeline - this is the template that I give to the students to see where their chosen design era fits in with those before and after it.




Here are 2 student examples







What I really enjoy about these is how my students not only use them to support their research but they make them look their own way too.


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