SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: 2 PAGES LONG SUBDOMAIN 602.3 - Instructional Presentation & Follow-up Competency 602.3.5: Content Structuring - The graduate structures lesson content appropriately, using organizers to help students organize lesson skills and information. Objective 602.3.5-01: Explain why it is important to structure content in order to help students organize key concepts and related details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given: Evidence suggests that graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to all learners, including English Language Learners (ELL), gifted students, and other students with special learning needs. Graphic organizers are visual depictions of concepts, knowledge, or information. They help students organize complex information into manageable chunks containing text and/or pictures. Examples of graphic organizers include flow charts, Venn diagrams, concept maps, charts, KWL charts, etc. Task: Write a brief essay (suggested length of 2 pages) that addresses the following: A. Explain how to introduce and organize instructional content using a graphic organizer to help students identify, organize, and assimilate key concepts and related details. B. Specify a measurable learning objective and describe how you would use a graphic organizer to help students organize specific lesson information for that objective. (Make sure to include the instructions you would give the students.) C. Provide a copy of the graphic organizer you would use. (Save the graphic organizer as a word processing document or as an Adobe document.) D. Include an explanation of why the graphic organizer you used is well-suited to the lesson content. E. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: 2 PAGES LONG SUBDOMAIN 602.3 - Instructional Presentation & Follow-up Competency 602.3.5: Content Structuring - The graduate structures lesson content appropriately, using organizers to help students organize lesson skills and information. Objective 602.3.5-01: Explain why it is important to structure content in order to help students organize key concepts and related details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given: Evidence suggests that graphic organizers make content area information more accessible to all learners, including English Language Learners (ELL), gifted students, and other students with special learning needs. Graphic organizers are visual depictions of concepts, knowledge, or information. They help students organize complex information into manageable chunks containing text and/or pictures. Examples of graphic organizers include flow charts, Venn diagrams, concept maps, charts, KWL charts, etc. Task: Write a brief essay (suggested length of 2 pages) that addresses the following: A. Explain how to introduce and organize instructional content using a graphic organizer to help students identify, organize, and assimilate key concepts and related details. B. Specify a measurable learning objective and describe how you would use a graphic organizer to help students organize specific lesson information for that objective. (Make sure to include the instructions you would give the students.) C. Provide a copy of the graphic organizer you would use. (Save the graphic organizer as a word processing document or as an Adobe document.) D. Include an explanation of why the graphic organizer you used is well-suited to the lesson content. E. If you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.