Learning Activity 4-D-1

During Reading Graphic Organizer

[Assignments]

30 points

Assignment Rubric

Choose a unit of study or lesson plan that you use in your classroom*. Apply what you have learned from Topic A and B about During Reading strategies and Graphic Organizers to that unit of study or lesson plan.

Think about the following questions as you develop the lesson plan to include the during reading strategy and a graphic organizer for this activity.

Specifically, how will you incorporate one of these strategies into a lesson plan? Why do you think it will enhance the lesson? How will it increase learning in your classroom? Develop a graphic organizer that your students will use in conjunction with your lesson plan. Why did you choose this particular organizer? Which of your students will benefit the most? Why? How does it enhance the learning of your students?

Develop your lesson plan, your during reading strategy, and graphic organizer in a word processing document.

Create a graphic organizer that your students will use in conjunction with your lesson plan. You may design your own in a word processing document or use one of the following FREE tools available on the Internet:

• Education Place: Graphic Organizers
• Enchanted Learning Graphic Organizers
  • free previews
  • $20/year subscription
  • includes a flowchart for choosing a graphic organizer
• EdHelper.com Graphic Organizers

Develop your strategy in a word processing document and post it and the graphic organizer to the assignment tool.

*If you do not have a unit of study or lesson plan, you may use the resources at nylearns.org.