This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...

Presentation explores what is text structure and the common types.

This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...

A slide show with sixteen slides with explanations and examples of different text structures including: cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequential, and description.

A printable chart shows nine different types of graphic organizers and is followed by a blank copy of each type of organizer, ready to print and use in the classroom. RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a central idea across multiple texts.

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing two nonfiction texts and a video. After completing the graphic organizer, students will use its contents to write a constructed...

This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.

This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...

Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.

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...

This graphic organizer can be used as a response to informational texts. Students will write two topics from their informational text as a during or post-reading activity. Under each topic, students will list similarities and differences...

Students will use a graphic organizer to help them make inferences. Students will list the literal text evidence and make an educated guess based on the text evidence.

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.

Students will use graphic organizers to help them make inferences about historical figures' feeings and motives. Students will summarize the information during an extension activity.

This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...

A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...

This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write what they already know about the topic and what they want to know about the topic by reading. After reading, students will record...

Several graphic organizers to develop skills in reading literary texts (RL.3 for grades 6, 7, and 8).

See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer for students to use when analyzing the evidence that authors use to support a claim. RI.9-10.5 ideas/claims developed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8

This site contains questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted materials that may be used for educational purposes.