Utah Education Network
Uen: Second Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt
This lesson plan engages students in working with narrative reading and writing. Students will listen to different stories and fill out story maps for them. Then students will plan a personal narrative about a "surprise" on a graphic...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales' The Bossy...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Iii
This lesson contains the following labs: Rainbows, Refraction with Prisms, and What Color Is It? Students will study light by reading various nonfiction texts and viewing a video lesson. Then students will engage in the following labs:...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Creating Graphic Organizers
This tutorial focuses on creating graphic organizers for a variety of purposes. It presents the following types of organizers, their uses, and the format of each: the Cornell method, charting method, cause and effect organizers, flow...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
This lesson focuses on note taking techniques, such as Cornell notes, note cards, graphic organizers, highlighting, etc. It discusses reasons for note taking, techniques, how to take notes, and what to do with notes. It offers this...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Novel That Confronts Bullying in Schools
In a multisession lesson, students read The Bully in stages, discuss the story events and issues related to bullying, and complete graphic organizers to help them organize story information. As students read, they write reflective...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
University of North Carolina
Unc: Writing Center: Comparing and Contrasting
This handout will help to determine whether a particular assignment is asking for comparison/contrast and then to generate a list of similarities and differences, decide which similarities and differences to focus on, and organize your...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Graphic Organizers (English Iii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to use graphic organizers to help you evaluate and organize your ideas.
Other
Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons
Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Reading Resources [Pdf]
This site provides a collection of reading strategy teaching resources. Strategies are arranged according to the ELA Common Core Curriculum Standards and grade level bands.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prewriting
This tutorial focuses on prewriting using graphic organizers to fit the type of paper required. The video discusses the following graphic organizers: chain of events, cycle charts, looking at both sides of an issue, sequence ladder, Venn...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources
Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...
Other
Reading Quest: Making Sense of Social Studies
Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...
Other
Fdlrs: Thinking Maps: Examples From Brevard Public Schools
See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School Collection
Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Vocabulary Words: Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer can help students as they explore new vocabulary words. It offers a place for a dictionary definition, as well as a place to practice using the word in a sentence.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Alphabet: Graphic Organizers (Spanish)
Los animales a veces comparten caracteristicas similares. Tambien son unicos. Usando los herramientos, puede explorar los animales del PBS Kids Animal Alphabet y otros.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Alphabet: Graphic Organizers (English)
Animals sometimes share similar characteristics. They also are unique. Using this set of tools, you can explore the animals from the PBS Kids Animal Alphabet series and others.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Graphic Organizers (English)
Channel your inner 'Creature Power' while watching Wild Kratts! Dig deep into the video clips using these learning resources.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids Graphic Organizers
We encourage you to explore three collections on PBS LearningMedia and leverage these graphic organizers with your students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use Outlines, Notetaking, Graphic Organizers, Lists
A learning module that teaches students about organizing information for an essay in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Taking Good Notes, Using Graphic Organizers, and Making Lists.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dot's Spot
Explore vocabulary words, the alphabet, and music alongside Del, Dot, and Dee through media, lesson plans, and graphic organizers.