Agree Disagree Chart

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• Helps students to organize data to support a position for or against an idea.
• Emphasizes point of view and assists with the analysis of bias.

The Grid

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• Helps students to organize a story or a project
• Helps students to track events in a story or novel.

The Fish Bone

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• Helps students explore cause and effect
• Helps students see and explain elements leading to a result

The Target

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• Students list events or ideas related to a concept e.g. “The Holocaust” and using a criteria such as “most significant lesson”, circle or highlight the events which meet the criteria.
• This strategy is similar to “rank ordering” in that students compare and contrast ideas asked on a given criterion.

The Ranking Ladder

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• Students list ideas or activites and rank order them by applying a criterion, such as preference, frequencies, overall benefit.
• Provides “think time’ for students to generate ideas about a topic.
• Provides practice with analysis, comparison and contrast.

The Mind Map

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• Shows the relationship among ideas.
• Review prior knowledge of an idea

Sequence Chart

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• Helps students order a set of actions, chronologically.
• Breaks down a complex sequence.
• In planning and organizing work, provides a sequence of steps to follow.
• Initially, needs to be done in partnership with the teacher.

The Venn Diagram

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• Students list ideas and categorize them into common groupings.
• This tool helps students to organize ideas by designated attributes.
• Students see similarities within and among topics.

The Web

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• Students put ideas on paper and represent the connections between and among ideas using lines and circles.
• Students see categories or clusters of ideas.
• Webs help to generate creativity and new ideas.
• The web can set limits to what should be addressed within the topic.
• Frames are generally set in advance, and webs evolve as the students brainstorm ideas.

Diagramming

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• Activates prior knowledge.
• Provides a focus.
• Summarizes information.
• Indicates where more detail is needed.