Activity
College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson uses graphic organizers to engage students in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included with the...
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Other

Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Evaluate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "evaluate" mold, including PMI and KWLH charts (consult the site for what these terms mean).
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Graphic Organizers for Science Reading/writing

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
This resource provides multiple graphic organizers for reading and writing in the science content area. [Registration is required.]
Website
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing different types of texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing persuasive, expository, and fiction texts.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing: Story Planners

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing stories.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing: Project Fiction

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides free graphic organizers to use while planning and writing fiction texts.
Activity
Utah Education Network

Uen: Using a Before Reading Organizer With Informational Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seed Discussion Organizer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable graphic organizer students can use to organize their thoughts when a new concept is introduced. Seed Discussion categories include things the learner does not understand, things that are surprising or interesting, new...
Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Decisions and Goals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer that will help students with goal setting. This graphic organizer with also help with understanding controversies, solving dilemmas, and making decisions.
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Venn Diagram, 3 Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A printable Venn Diagram with three circles to use when comparing and contrasting three things or topics. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: K W L Chart

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this printable template to create a KWL (Know, Want to Know, Learned) graphic organizer.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Essay Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Venn Diagram, 2 Circles

For Students K - 1st Standards
A printable Venn diagram to use when comparing and contrasting two things or topics. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lunar Language

For Teachers 6th
This lesson engages students in listening and viewing comprehension strategies to help them learn about the phases of the moon. Students will use a specialized graphic organizer to draw and describe observed moon phases. A sheet with ABC...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: T Chart

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A printable T-chart for students to use when comparing two topics or two sides of one topic. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.
Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, learners will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of word choice. Onamatopoeia is the focus content for this lesson plan. After the reading of the...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Don't Get Lost in Story Writing: Follow the Map!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, teachers will guide the students, as a group, through the process of writing a meaningful story using a story map. First the teacher will review the parts that make up a successful story. Then, the students will be guided...
Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: What's So Great About Kevin Henkes?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will serve as researchers of author/illustrator Kevin Henkes. With prompting, students will read three books by Kevin Henkes. They will recall information from the text to...
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Using a Jigsaw for an Author Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.