In a nowadays classroom, students are surrounded by visual imagery through textbooks, notice boards, television, videos, or computers. Many classrooms are filled with colourful pictures and photographs. However, it is unclear how – or if - these images impact the ESL students who are developing reading comprehension. The focus of this article is on ESL learners‘ use of these graphics as information organizers while comprehending a passage for main ideas, supporting details, facts, opinions, comparisons and contradictions and it examines and proposes different forms of graphic organizers for achieving better understanding of texts.