Knowledge organisers have been a part of my faculty’s approach to homework and the curriculum for roughly 5 years. During that time I have thought at length about what makes a good knowledge organiser. However, that also raised a fundamental question about what knowledge organisers actually are. Looking at other schools’ approaches and research on Twitter seems to suggest that there are two main styles, the narrative style and the grid style. The Grid Style: The grid format focuses on the clear presentation of facts, whether they are keywords, dates, or key individuals. They act as a method of directly reinforcing facts which pupils have already been taught in lessons. They are not presented in prose or a narrative, but rather than as a table in a “term: definition” format. Pupils often ‘quiz’ with these knowledge organisers with a ‘look, cover, say, write, check’ process, replicating the knowledge organiser, or by asking people to ask them the key definitions of different term
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