This is the practice of graphically organizing thoughts by starting with a main idea and organizing thoughts and ideas around the main idea.

• A. Lesson Objective
• B. Models
• C. Manipulatives
• D. Nonverbal Prompting

Answer: (C)

Using concrete tools to organize thinking around a central idea helps students concretely show how related ideas connect. Manipulatives provide tangible items that learners can move, group, and rearrange to place around a main concept. This hands-on arranging makes the structure of ideas visible, supports discussion, and clarifies relationships like similarities, differences, or causes. The central idea becomes the anchor, and the surrounding pieces illustrate how other thoughts relate to it, which is exactly what graphic organizing aims to capture in a tangible form.

A lesson objective describes what students should be able to do, but it doesn’t specify a method for organizing ideas. Models are representations of ideas or processes, which can aid understanding, yet they aren’t inherently about physically organizing thoughts with movable items. Nonverbal prompting involves cues to elicit responses without words, not about structuring or visualizing ideas around a central concept.