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Grade
5th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Instructional Strategy
Writing
Year
2012
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Writing Organizers

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Eight graphic organizers to choose from? That's right! Each of these organizers relates to writing or reading. From narrowing a writing topic, to responding to literature, to planning a writing project, you'll find many purposes for these pages. All of the organizers are nicely formatted and could be printed and used immediately.

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Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, key details, details, supporting details, sensory language, imagery, figurative language, poetic devices, poetry, literary devices, topic sentences

Additional Tags

essay plan, essay planning, details, main idea, supporting detail, topic sentence, poetic devices, sensory detail, Response to Literature, english language arts

Pros

  • A useful resource due to the overall variety and quality of graphic organizers included
  • Editable PDF versions of the first two worksheets are included

Cons

  • Some pages do not include very much space for writing complete sentences and might limit writers to bullet points and short phrases

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Lesson Plan

Shakespeare and Poe Teach Six-Trait Writing

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Organizer

Umbrella Organizer Frames

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Unit Plan

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Activity

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Worksheet

Persuasive Writing - Introductory Paragraph Review

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Activity

Creative Writing Workshop

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Unit Plan

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