{"id":13435,"date":"2017-12-11T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2017-07-26T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T06:18:55","slug":"bookvisualedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/bookvisualedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book! The Visual Edge: Graphic Organizers for Standards Based Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nWelcome to a new series where we feature great books for language learners and teachers.\u00a0Created upon the concept of visual learning,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visual-Edge-Organizers-Standards-Learning\/dp\/099837220X\/ref=la_B01DH09TQU_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1501048389&amp;sr=1-1\">The Visual Edge: Graphic Organizers for Standards Based Learning<\/a>, by Sargy Letuchy,\u00a0is a comprehensive set of innovative visual instructional tools designed for English, Science, and History, grades 6-12.\u00a0\u00a0The book\u00a0is a positive addition to a differentiated curriculum as it provides a flexible bridge for teachers to facilitate dynamic learning experiences that develop all students&#8217; upper level thinking skills related to learning standards.\u00a0Each page includes 3 sections:\u00a0 (1) the standards,\u00a0(2) an\u00a0explanation\u00a0of that standard and how to use the graphic organizer in class, and (3) the\u00a0graphic organizer\u00a0itself, which is custom made for the standard.<\/p>\n<p>Sargy explains how to align graphic organizers with standards:<\/p>\n<p>If the standard is reading analysis, such as \u201ccompare and contrast,\u201d a Venn diagram would be the best tool to use because it naturally points to the task of comparison. However, for the language application standard, \u201cuse a particular grammar topic,\u201d an example guide is probably the best option because it supports\u00a0demonstration. For\u00a0the writing style standard, \u201cpersuade using claims, reasons, and evidence,\u201d a flow chart or table is best\u00a0because each component is being captured in a connected manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">Each week we scour the internet to find incredible books to highlight on our various social networks (<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TESOL\">@TESOL<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanTESOL\">@AmericanTESOL<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLWebinars\">@ESLWebinars<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">). Check out our past favorites\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/category\/book-of-the-month\/\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: center;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To learn more about integrating technology to support English language learners, attend our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/tesol-lectures.htm\">free Friday webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new series where we feature great books for language learners and teachers.\u00a0Created upon the concept of visual learning,\u00a0The Visual Edge: Graphic Organizers for Standards Based Learning, by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[2157,2155,2156,2179],"class_list":["post-13435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-of-the-month","tag-elt-book","tag-esl-author","tag-featured-elt-book","tag-graphic-organizers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13439,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions\/13439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}