The 6th grade Language Arts teacher and I worked together during two planning periods. After looking at several sample diagrams and discussing how they were developed the teacher was ready to chose a topic for her Concept Diagram. Because she is starting a new unit on Folk Tales soon, she decided she wanted to use the diagram to help introduce a topic for the upcoming unit. Narrowing the characteristics for the Always Present column required her to determine what was most important for the students to understand. After that decision was made it was easier to chose the Sometimes and Never columns. She enjoyed creating the diagram and was pleasantly surprised at how much it helped her organize her own thoughts on the concept. She has changed her plans for the upcoming unit on Folk Tales and stated that she wants to use more of the diagrams for other concepts.
