Reading Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers can support all bailiwick areas, languages, and levels of learning. Our collections for primary (grades One thousand-ii) and intermediate (grades 3-six) are arranged according to the reading strategy, comprehension skill, or learning procedure they best facilitate. The majority of the organizers in both collections can be adapted for use in all classrooms and for learners of all abilities. All graphic organizer PDFs are editable for use in a digital classroom surroundings, or downloadable and printable and then students tin complete them using pen or pencil.

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Why Utilize Graphic Organizers

The human brain naturally looks for connections between one-time and new information. Additionally, studies accept shown that the encephalon processes data most efficiently in chunks. Graphic organizers complement both of these processes by helping students:

  • Visually sort new information into familiar categories
  • Analyze the relationships betwixt old and new information
  • Create a uncomplicated structure for thinking well-nigh information in new ways
  • Review concepts and demonstrate understanding

Graphic organizers can be used in all phases of learning from brainstorming ideas to presenting research findings.

How to Use Graphic Organizers

Instructor guidance may be necessary when using graphic organizers with early readers. As readers progress, they may benefit from completing the organizers independently.

Worksheets for Leveled Books, Serial Books, and Trade Book Lessons contain at least one graphic organizer specific to each book, but y'all tin use whatever graphic organizer with any text to support comprehension.

Reading graphic organizers are translated into Castilian and French, and can be used for all class levels.

  • Main
    Grades K-ii
  • Intermediate
    Grades 3-half dozen

Reading Strategy

Ask and Reply Questions

Condense and categorize questions and answers about a field of study

Concept Blossom

Condense and organize information nigh a single topic

Draw Connections

Outline cocky-to-text relationships

KWL Chart

Organize data according to what students know, what they desire to know, and what they learn from reading a select text

KWLS Nautical chart

Organize information according to what students know, what they want to know, what they learn through reading, and what they still want to know

Retell Nautical chart

Record important information nigh a story to improve textual agreement

Web Diagram

Condense and organize information about a single topic

Web Wheel

Condense and organize information about a single topic

Y-Nautical chart

Record prior knowledge almost a topic

Reading Comprehension Skill

Cause and Effect

Outline cause-and-effect relationships

Character Blossom

Tape the characters, setting, trouble, events, and solution

Character Map

Analyze a character's traits

Character Traits Wheel

Analyze a graphic symbol or person

Describe Conclusions

Use data from text to draw conclusions virtually characters or events

Fact and Opinion Nautical chart

Distinguish between facts and opinions

Fantasy and Reality

Split elements of reality from elements of fantasy

Main Thought and Details E-Chart

Identify a main idea and two supporting details

Main Idea and Details Ladder

Condense and organize details nearly a unmarried topic

Make Inferences

Use information from text to make inferences almost characters or events

Problem and Solution

Identify the problem and solution

Sequence Events Nautical chart

Identify the get-go, middle, and finish

Sequence Events Chart II

Identify what happens start, side by side, and so, and last

Story Elements Map

Identify the problem, rising activeness, climax, falling action, and solution

Story Map

Place the characters, setting, problem, events, and solution

Summary Chart

Identify important ideas in text to write a summary

Timeline

List events in chronological order

Topic Spider web

Condense and organize information by identifying why, who, what, when, and where

Venn Diagram

Compare and contrast two items or topics

Vocabulary

Word Significant Map I

Tape and define elements of a word

Word Pregnant Map II

Tape, ascertain, and employ elements of a word

Reading Strategy

Apprehension Guide

Brand and revise predictions about a topic earlier and after reading

KWL Chart

Organize data according to what students know, what they desire to know, and what they larn from reading

KWLS Chart

Organize information according to what students know, what they want to know, what they learn from reading, and what they still want to know

Annotation Director

Record important information about a topic

Topic Spider web

Condense and organize information by identifying how, who, what, why, when, and where

Web Diagram

Condense and organize data about a single topic

Web Wheel

Condense and organize information about a single topic

Y-Chart

Tape prior cognition about a topic

Reading Comprehension Skill

Cause and Event

Identify crusade-and-effect relationships

Cause and Effect Chain

Identify multiple cause-and-effect relationships in sequence

Character Attributes Web

Analyze several aspects of a grapheme's traits

Grapheme Interaction Map

Describe how multiple characters chronicle to one some other

Grapheme Map

Analyze a character's traits

Fact and Opinion Nautical chart

Distinguish between facts and opinions

Identify Author's Purpose

Identify and support the author'due south purpose

Main Idea and Details Ladder

Identify principal ideas and supporting details for a topic

Make Inferences

Use story clues and prior knowledge to make inferences

Plot Map

Identify the beginning, main events, climax, and resolution

Problem and Solution

Identify the problem and solution

Sequence Events Nautical chart I

Identify the start, middle, and ending

Sequence Events Chart II

Sequence events in chronological guild

Sequence Events Nautical chart III

Sequence multiple events in the guild in which they occurred

Solution Evaluation Chart

Place the problem, possible solutions, and last upshot

Story Map

Identify the characters, setting, trouble, events, and solution

Story Spider web

Identify the setting, characters, problem, and solution

Summary Chart

Identify important events in text to write a summary

Summary Outline

Place important ideas in text to write a summary

Supporting Details Web

Identify the main idea and supporting details

Timeline

List events in chronological order

Venn Diagram

Compare and contrast 2 topics

Vocabulary

Give-and-take Meaning Map I

Record and define elements of words

Word Meaning Map II

Record, define, and apply elements of a word

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