ABSTRACT
Picture a classroom in which students are thinking about the content diagrammatically. Choosing from a repertoire of about 30 visual organizers/ThinkLinks or creating their own shapes, they are connecting ideas to examples, causes to effects, one case by analogy to another (see some in Appendix Figures A.6 and A.7). They are working individually, in pairs, or in cooperative groups of four. After completing the Think Link, they label the types of thinking they used, then sometimes proceed to use the completed maps as blueprints for discussion or written composition.
