As students cluster, their thoughts tumble out, enlarging their word bank for writing and often enabling them to see patterns in their ideas. Clustering may be a class or an individual activity. Cycle A depiction of a Cycle attempts to show how a series of events interacts to produce a set of results again and again, such as the life cycle or a cycle of poor decisions. The map may be used to organize ideas or brainstorm ideas for a writing project. A storyboard is a graphic, sequential depiction of a narrative.
Students recall major events of the story, then illustrate the events in the squares provided.
The Venn Diagram is made up of two or more overlapping circles. It is often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets. In language arts instruction, Venn Diagrams are useful for examining similarities and differences in characters, stories, poems, etc. This activity enables students to organize similarities and differences visually .