TAL 404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Graphic Organizer

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 404
• Professor: Dr.Post

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In close reading, you wait until after the first reading to give background knowledge. Schema theory: theorist of schema theory: piaget, piaget said you assimilate, accommodate, & equilibrate, adaptation to the environment. Scheme--building block of knowledge: assimilation--fit new things into existing scheme, accommodation--change your existing knowledge to fit new information, equilibrium--do something to rebalance when things don"t make sense. Schema is arranged by networks, & the bigger network you have the tighter the net is, the easier it is to "catch" new information: therefore teachers need to help students build background knowledge. Linguistic schemata: we can match linguistic patterns, we do this when answering end-of-chapter questions a lot, does(cid:374)"t sho(cid:449) (cid:449)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ut helps us follo(cid:449) gra(cid:373)(cid:373)ar. Students with different first language struggle with this. Organizational schema: based on what you know, you can derive information, think of the chrustopher colimbus story. In this procedure, a passage is cut up so that students can fill it in.