Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Graphic Organizers by Ratna Nur'aini


 

Teaching and learning writing using graphic organizers is the most effective way to students in thinking and exploring ideas through visual display. The graphic organizers help the students to do more concentrate and focus to improve the topic given to be paragraphs or essays. It makes them easier to organize their ideas within the process of their writing. It acts as a pattern to improve the performance of writing guidance so that teacher can easily control their students’ illustration in creating their essay based on their concept maps. In addition, I do agree that building writing papers using some kind of the types of graphic organizers through visual learning is a very good way of strategy to enhance the ability of writing.



 

I also think that graphic organizers help me to teach writing better. It is shown that teaching writing using graphic organizers is useful enough for me to help students to learn writing as a tool to illustrate their ideas. It is also to visualize and organize information to form a writing product. The graphic organizers learning are also having some benefit to my students about structure and increase their reading comprehension. They are also a costume to use graphic organizers to brainstorm in finding concepts or ideas and organize them to demonstrate to be a better performance. Finally, it gives an impact to the students to grow more confidence to demonstrate their writing papers.
 

Graphic organizers are helpful for the learners to learn the writing process. It can be seen teachers teaching about vocabulary in understanding the reading text or when the teachers introduce the new materials such as genre in a reading text.  For example when the students learn how to write a narrative text, teachers give some words like orientation, complication, resolution, re-orientation, moral value, tell a story, amuse , entertain, etc. Then teachers ask students to think and discuss the materials in a group to create a good short story based on the words given. Because of those words given as starting to compose the paragraph, the students feel that it makes them easy to start creating their work.

1 comment:

  1. That's true Bu Ratna. I agree that graphic organizer helps students to write, by providing them the structure of certain text types. But, actually, there are a lot more than writing activity that can be helped by graphic organizer. In fact, all of the language skills. VIVA GRAPHIC ORGANIZER!

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