“…In the earliest GO research, GOs had been presented prior to text with little success (Barron, 1969;Barron & Cooper, 1973;Earle, 1969;Estes, Mills, & Barron, 1969) and after text with moderate success (Alvermann, 1980(Alvermann, , 1981Barron, 1979;Barron & Stone, 1974;Bean, Singer, Sorter & Frazee, 1986;Boothby & Alvermann, 1984;Huard, 1983). For this reason, the original term structured overview was changed to graphic organizer as the instructional position switched from pretext to posttext (an overview is usually presented before the content).…”