B. Draw semantic maps (AL COS)

Inferring Character Traits
Students must be able to identify with the characters in a story to fully comprehend the story. This activity uses semantic mapping and bio poems to help students infer and identify character traits and relationships among characters.

Escaping Slavery: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara's problems and how she solves them.

Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
This lesson uses the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen to introduce the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work using semantic feature analysis.

Friendship
This is a lesson based on the book, Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel. Each student writes a letter to a friend describing the strengths of the friendship. Students use a semantic web to organize their ideas.

Education Place: Graphic Organizers:  This page gives several printable graphic organizers.

SCORE: Graphic Organizers:  This site will give examples of and in some cases blackmasters of the different types of organizers.

Suggestions for English Language Learners (ELLs):
(E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding)

E/B: Read one's own writing or simple narrative text and begin to produce phonemes appropriately.
E/B: Recognize and produce English phonemes students already know, and possibly use them in simple phrases or sentences.
D: Identify change in voice and expression in stories that are read by self and read aloud.
D: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand multi-syllabic words; E: Use letter-sound relationships and word roots to produce and understand new word families.
D, E: Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes to find meanings of unknown words.
D: Use synonyms and antonyms to demonstrate understanding of words; E: Use synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine meanings of words.
E: Identify and analyze sentence and context clues to find meanings of unknown words.
E: Read narrative and expository texts with change in voice and expression.
 

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