This document discusses using sociograms to help students comprehend and analyze relationships in literary texts or other subjects. A sociogram is a graphic organizer that represents the connections between characters or concepts. It places a central character or concept in the middle and has students analyze how their relationships with others develop or change, representing these relationships with symbols like lines or images. Sociograms can be used in history, science, and PE to help explain relationships and interactions.
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Key stage three 3
1. Sharing Teaching and Learning Ideas
Half Term Six Focus: Key Stage Three
Key Idea: Using Sociograms to comprehend and expand on
contextual relationships.
A sociogram is a graphic organiser that represents the relationships among characters in a literary text. It
could also be used in other subject areas for example, analysing potential cause-and-effect relationships:
? History: (i.e. Russia during WWI)
? Science: (i.e. A particular element and its reaction with other elements, etc.)
? P.E. (i.e. Explaining the rules of a particular sport/interaction of players, etc.)
Ways you can do this in your classroom:
? A specific character/concept is placed in the middle of the diagram.
? Students work to analyse the development of the relationships this character/concept has with
others.
? The developments/changes in these relationships must be replicated by symbols created by students
to depict the characters/concepts and their interactions (i.e. a strong black line from the centre focus
to another may start to become thinner or broken, representing the potential breakdown of a
relationship. The proximity of characters on the diagram could also indicate particular elements of
their relationship. Key images could also be used to represent important facts or qualities about
them; a bully could be represented by a closed fist, etc.)