The use of textual aids on
the understanding of a
text
(Advance Organizers, Titles, Non-Linear
Illustrations)
Objective:
✔Determine the effect of textual
aids like advance organizers,
titles, non-linear illustrations, etc.
on the understanding of a text.
What are Textual Aids??
⮚It is also called TEXT FEATURES. These are
visual elements of page that should out
from the main text.
⮚Are tools or materials that provide
support and facilitate understanding of a
text.
Simple examples of textual aids.
• Words being illustrated
• Charts
• Graphs
• Diagrams
• Maps
• Tables etc.
What is an Advance Organizer??
⮚ An instructional unit that is used before direct
instruction or before new topic.
⮚Like cognitive roadmaps that allow students to
see where they have been and where they are
going.
⮚It is the direct intellectual scaffolding for
subsequent learning.
Main Purpose of Advance
Organizer
✔To make connections between
incoming and prior knowledge.
Types of Advance Organizer
Expository organizer
⮚Describes the new content.
⮚May simply provide students with the
meaning and purpose of what to follow.
Comparative Organizer
• It is designed to discriminate between
the old and new concepts to prevent
confusion caused by their similarity.
Narrative Advance Organizer
• Presents the new information in the form
of a story.
Skimming
⮚Focuses on highlighted information.
⮚Headings, subheadings, and the first
sentence of each paragraph.
Types of advance organizer
Graphic Organizer
• a method of presenting information in
the visual realm.
• demonstrates relationships between
different information and concepts.
T-Chart
• helps organize ideas into two
columns and examine two concepts of
an objects, concepts or events.
Concept Map
• shows relationships between the main
idea and other information.
Venn Diagram
• is used to compare and contrast two or
more groups of things visually displaying
their similarities and differences in
overlapping circles.
Sequence Chart
• presents a series of steps of events in
order.
• also called flow diagram.
Cause- and- Effect Diagram
• helps you illustrate the relationships on
why something happens or visually
explains the effect of something.
K-W-L Chart
• used at any age for any subject matter.
• a popular form of advance organizer.
• about what they know about the topic,
what they want to know, and what they
have learned in the end.
KWL
WHAT I KNOW What I Want
to Know
What I
Learned