GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS ENCHANCE READING COMPREHENSION

ELOISA P. REYES

Learners are not into reading now a days, because they are preoccupied with things that need to spend most of their time like chatting friends online, playing computer games etc.

Teachers find it so hard for them to make students engage themselves in reading, and when students were task to summarize, analyze a certain story, they are having trouble on what to do?

And an effective way of helping students to overcome this problem is through the use of GRAPHIIC ORGANIZERs.

Wikipedia’s definition: A graphic organizer, also known as a knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram. Is a pedagogical tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relationships between ideas. The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning and instruction.

Teachers are flexible when using graphic organizers in teaching reading comprehension, they allow students to become more creative in gathering data, how to organize information, understand easily the given situations and clearly see relationship between ideas.

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The author is Teacher III at Pampanga High School