University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Graphic Organizers
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section teaches students to use graphic organizers.
Other
Kim's Korner: Graphic Organizers for Writing and Reading
What are graphic organizers for reading and writing? Use this site to learn more about these learning tools.
Other
Education Oasis: Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizers
This site contains several downloadable graphic organizers for comparing and contrasting reading topics.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
Read Works
Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Young scholars will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Independent Reading [Pdf]
A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
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Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Cause and Effect [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used as a reading response when working with informational text. Students will write two different effects and record multiple causes for each effect.
Other
Graphic Organizer: Cause and Effect: Smoking [Pdf]
This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for listing the effects of smoking. Requires Adobe Reader.
TES Global
Blendspace: Graphic Organizers
Eighteen different graphic organizers for use with various reading and writing activities.
Other
Graphic Organizers: Cause and Effect: Healthy Eating [Pdf]
This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for healthy eating. Requires Adobe Reader.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Issues: Extra Curricular Activities
This lesson focuses on the pros and cons of extra-curricular activities for kids; while positive effects have been proven, overscheduled kids may have trouble keeping up with the activities and school work. It features links to opposing...
Read Works
Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Raft Writing Template
A printable graphic organizer for students to use while determining their role, audience, format, and topic for a RAFT writing assignment. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Listen Read Discuss (Lrd)
Listen-Read-Discuss (LRD) (Manzo & Casale, 1985) is a comprehension strategy that builds students' prior knowledge before they read a text. During the first stage, students listen as you present the content of their reading through a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Five W's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a graphic organizer that helps students identify the 5 W's-- Who- What-When-Where-Why-- and How. This is helpful in summarizing reading selections, historical events and creating news...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Compare Matrix
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer uses a matrix to help students compare items or events. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific experiments.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Map Cause and Effect
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer flipchart uses the fishbone technique to map cause and effect. It is useful for helping students understand and analyze reading passages, historical events, and scientific...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: I Chart
A printable inquiry chart designed to help students ask questions and collect information from various texts when conducting research on any topic. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart
A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: I Search Chart
A printable inquiry search graphic organizer to help students organize questions and sub questions while working through the research process. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Biography Project: Research/presentation
Typical lesson on a biography research project. Students choose a famous person, read a biography and do research online, and create a graphic organizer to teach the class about the person's life.