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What does it do?
The Graph Club is a tool that helps students manipulate five types of graphs to see how the same data can be represented differently (adjust one graph and the others change simultaneously). Students can read, write, create and interpret picture graphs, bar graphs, pie graphs, line graphs and tables. |
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How does this link to early literacy? Students can actively construct visual representations of how they have analyzed, compared, interpreted and synthesized information introduced in a book they've read. Pictures and images help young children describe their ideas in a concrete manner, while reading and manipulating graphs fosters higher level comprehension skills like reasoning, evaluating, and synthesizing. Practice with linking concepts in literature and math helps young children form new connections with text and fosters the transfer of thinking skills from one context to another. Tools like The Graph Club enable teachers to easily link literature and non-fiction texts to math tasks that can enrich a young child's experiences with books. | |
Online Resources
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Literature: Footprints
in the Snow, by Cynthia Benjamin (Hello Reader, Level 1)
Software Tool: The Graph Club, by Tom Snyder Productions Additional Internet Resource: Tracks Left in the Night |
Grade Level: K-1
Tasks
Center or Partner Activity at Computer: Bring the index cards you made to this center. Use The Graph Club software to create either a bar graph, line graph, picto-graph, or pie chart that illustrates which animals make the same number of footprints. Save and print your chart. Read your chart to a friend. |
Product Example:
Here is a picto-graph Here is a bar graph |