AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Concept Maps
A concept map help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. There are several types of concept maps; some are hierarchical, while others connect information without categorizing ideas.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Organizing Information
Strategies to help students organize information found in a text provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as graphic organizers, hierarchical summaries, KWL, and previewing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Comparison/contrast Feet [Pdf]
A graphic organizer where students write similarities on one foot and differences on the other.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Square Compare and Contrast Diagram [Pdf]
A graphic organizer where students compare and contrast items by writing similarities and differences in overlapping squares, similar to the circles on a Venn Diagram.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Same and Different Ways of Thinking [Pdf]
A graphic organizer for students to use when comparing the thoughts of two different characters. A blank organizer and a completed sample are provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Problem Solving [Pdf]
A graphic organizer students can use to think about or solve a problem from three different points of view. A blank copy and a completed sample are both provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Comparing Community Helpers
After reading the picture book Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse, which discusses how the weather both helps and harms the community, students bring tools from home to represent what their parents do for a living. They will present these...
PBS
Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and graphing....
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting fiction or nonfiction characteristics.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Map a Story or a History [Pdf]
This graphic organizer provides a story map. Students can use this visual resource to help them record major plot events from a story or from a historical event.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Model How to Map Story or History Spanish[pdf]
Designed for students who speak Spanish, this graphic organizer provides a story map. Students can use this visual resource to help them record major plot events from a story or from a historical event.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze and Infer Causes & Effects [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze and infer cause-effect relationships. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they determine several causes for one effect. Then students will write to explain the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Classify and Summarize Information [Pdf]
This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Decisions [Pdf]
A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Students will analyze how characters interact and develop throughout the course of a nonfiction text.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Locate and Classify Information [Pdf]
A blank T-Chart is provided for students to use as they sort facts into two categories. Students will classify science information with this aid.
Other
Digital Pencil: Project Organizers
This collection of digital organizers can help students work through the research or writing process in a number of ways, and many include resource links, as well as suggestions for ways to share the knowledge gained through the project.
Other
The Graphic Organizer: Index of Graphic Organizers
The table on this page organizes links to a variety of graphic organizers. Each organizer is pictured and explained. Question prompts, ideas for use, and investigative links also included on pages for individual organizers. If you are...
Other
Five Main Types of Graphic Organizers
This site provides information on how to use each graphic organizer. There are also 21 different graphic organizers for you to see.
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers
This site explores what graphic organizers are and why they are such valuable instructional tools. Five main types of organizers are addressed: webs, charts, trees, chains, and sketches.
Other
Learning Resources: Graphic Organizers
A comprehensive site detailing the various types of graphic organizers. Provides information about graphic organizers in the classroom, the advantages of graphic organizers, and exploring the possibilities, including several links to...
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Analyze
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "analysis" mold, including fishbone, spider maps, Venn Diagrams, and more.
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Brainstorm
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "brainstorming" mold, including synectics, webs, cerebral charts, and network trees.
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "compare and contrast" mold, including the Venn diagram, T-chart, and the compare/contrast matrix.
Other
Write Design: Graphic Organizers: Evaluate
Lists and describes several types of graphic organizers which fall under the "evaluate" mold, including PMI and KWLH charts (consult the site for what these terms mean).