Looking at the concept comparison organizer and routine, we
were thinking of so many topics that we could use with this. A lot of the
social studies and science topics have many details that can be confusing, such
as the simple machines, or ancient civilizations. This would surely be a
tool to help break it down and summarize the similarities and differences with
them. We really like your suggestion to have this organizer partly filled
out. This would be very helpful for the students who write slower, and
would allow us to use the purpose of this and not get hung up on the writing
aspect. For our next one, I can see us giving the partly filled out
organizer, and for some of the students giving them a neat copy would also be
beneficial. One thing that was tricky for us, was that the boxes were
pretty small and third graders don’t always write small. I can also see
us blowing the boxes up a little bit to give them more space, especially for
the summary. We look forward to doing these in the future.
