Graphic Organizers

Beneath its simplicity lies an absolute dynamo, a vehicle that can cement learning more firmly than a lot of the other stuff we try, in a lot less time.

Comprehension makes reading meaningful and fun.

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Students in Sarah Brown Wessling's High School ELA class create life-size graphic organizers to represent the prototypes they've created. Students work together to fill out the different parts of the organizers and then present their work to the class.

Comparing and contrasting can be a tricky skill. This is one of my favorite ways to introduce kids to comparing and contrasting.

www.dpi.state.nc.us docs curriculum socialstudies scos organizers k12-social.pdf

"Evidence For Evidence Against" is a teaching strategy that helps students read a piece of text. It's an opportunity to connect creativity & standards.

Four-Star Reading Responses Anchor Chart. Use this anchor chart to show your students between a vague 1-star response and a detailed 4-star response!

Students in David Cooper's 6th grade Social Studies class analyze art using a see-wonder-think thinking routine. They begin by making concrete observations about the art. They then come up with questions about the art and share the questions with each other.

Welcome to week 10 of our Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our new S.O.S series to provide help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. A-E-I-O-U PDF Version Background As students, particularly language learners, are developing their ability to interpret information, it is important that we

It’s much more important for a student to practice writing -- the only way to build writing fluency -- than to fill in a graphic organizer completely or perfectly.

This morning on Twitter I was sent a direct message from someone who was looking for recommendations for a free flowchart creation tool. Lucidchart was my immediate recommendation. Over the years I've reviewed a lot of other flowchart, mind map, and diagramming tools. Here is my updated list of suggestions for flowchart, mind map, and diagramming tools. Lucidchart is a mind mapping tool that can be used in your web browser or on your iPad. The app and the website are both easy to use to...

Graphic organizers are useful tools to support thinking and comprehension. Use the graphic organizer templates and tools in Wixie to help students learn to use these powerful tools to support their thinking and develop responsibility for their own learning.

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