Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Persuasive Writing: You Are What You Eat
Students will write a persuasive essay trying to convince their audience to eat healthy. Students will use the Makes Sense Strategies to complete the instructional activity. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Is Little Red Riding Hood Anyway?
This lesson compares and contrasts the traditional Litle Red Riding Hood, by the Brothers Grimm, to Little Red Cowboy Hat, by Susan Lowell. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Nuts' About Peanuts!! (Writing)
This lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will describe the characteristics of a peanut and peanut butter (using their five senses) and record their observations/descriptions on a graphic organizer....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!
Students will read and discuss the story, Ira Sleeps Over, by Bernard Waber and write a persuasive paragraph about the story, using a Think-sheet to guide the writing. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Don't Get Lost in Story Writing: Follow the Map!
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: My Bad Day
During this writing lesson students go step by step through the writing process to create a story about a bad day. Students use graphic organizers and Internet resources to help improve their writing skills.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Name Etymology
During this lesson, students will have the opportunity to research the etymology and history of their names. Students will begin to understand ways to make history, linguistic history, and cultural history a lot of fun.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Moments in Time" Lines
This lesson will give students the opportunity to share important events in their lives while learning to make a timeline.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Summarizing Sarah, Plain and Tall
This is a hands-on instructional activity to introduce students to Patricia MacLachlan's Sarah, Plain and Tall series. Students will discover rural life, how to make a timeline, and analyze literary elements while reading Sarah, Plain...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are Idioms?
After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.
Tech4Learning
Tech4 Learning: Graphic Organizer Maker
Tool for making customized graphic organizer worksheets to use in the classroom. Choose from concept maps, KWHL charts, Venn diagrams, timelines, cycles, and more.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Graphic Organizers for Science Reading/writing
This resource provides multiple graphic organizers for reading and writing in the science content area. [Registration is required.]
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Boy Versus the Gingerbread Girl
Students will compare and contrast parts of two stories, "The Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Girl" with the aid of graphic organizers.
FNO Press
From Now On: Graphical Organizers as Thinking Technology
From Now On explains the purpose and advantages of graphic organizers such as converting complex information into meaningful displays, helping students plan their research, and sometimes acting as mind maps. There are several examples...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Chronological Order Worksheet [Pdf]
This Chronological Order graphic organizer allows students to order events from text they are reading.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Graphic Organizer [Pdf]
From FCAT Express, this site provides a chart in pdf format of a graphic organizer. Included on the graphic organizer is a space for overall result along with four spaces for causes and their details.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Question/answer Worksheet [Pdf]
This is a worksheet in a pdf format on Question/Answer Relationship. The worksheet is divided into four columns under the headings right there, think/search, author/you, and on my own.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis Worksheet [Pdf]
This is a worksheet in a pdf format on Semantic Feature Analysis. The worksheet, or matrix, is divided into boxes in three rows with four columns across.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Story Mapping Worksheet (Pdf) [Pdf]
Printable PDF file of a Story Mapping Worksheet. Students identify the main events in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. It is provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade.
Other
Graphic Organizer: Cause and Effect: Smoking [Pdf]
This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for listing the effects of smoking. Requires Adobe Reader.
Other
Cape Girardeau Schools: Inspiration Templates and Ideas
This school site provides templates and ideas for using Inspiration Software, a visual thinking and learning tool, in your classroom.
Other
Have Fun Teaching: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast: Venn Diagram [Pdf]
This resource is a blank Venn diagram which allows two students to illustrate what each of them likes individually and what they both like the same.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Concept Map
This concept map is a way for you to show relationships between words and concepts. An arrow connecting two words shows that those words are related in some way. When you're finished, you can group words that go together with a circle or...