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Graphic Organizers

Listed below are a variety of graphic organizers that can be used with students in accelerating, acquiring or extending/refining learning. These tools should be used to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions with texts. They should not be used simply as worksheets or activities for their own sake.

Graphic Organizers for Acceleration, Acquisition and Vocabulary Lessons

Venn Diagram KWL Story Map 2 Frayer

Cycle Graph KWL Plus Story Pyramid Word Map Describing an Meeting New Fishbone Story Worm Event Vocabulary Descriptive The Important Story Map 1 Word Bank Organizer Thing Decision Making 5 W and How Sequence Chain Spider Map Frame Comparison Matrix Filmstrip T-Chart 3-2-1 Chronological Beginning, Middle, Point of View Just the Facts Narrative End Descriptive This Caused... Compare/Contrast ABC Brainstorming Paragraph Frame Triangle

SQ3R Cause and Effect Attribute Web Question/Prediction

Using All My Sketch to Stretch Connections Inferencing Senses Determining Questioning Picture in My Head Synthesizing Importance

Graphic Organizers for Extending and Refining Thinking Skills

Comparing and Classifying and Constructing Abstracting Contrasting Categorizing Support Analyzing Inductive Deductive Error Analysis Perspectives Reasoning Reasoning

Can't find an organizer to meet your needs? Check out these web sites for even more!

Library of Graphic Organizers Enchanted Learning Graphic Organizers

EdHelper Graphic Organizers More Graphic Organizers

Education Place Graphic Organizers to Print

Houghton Mifflin Eduplace Scholastic: Graphic Organizers Portal

The Write Site Education Oasis

Region 15 Graphic Organizers (English and Spanish versions)

*Material adapted from a variety of sources including Dr. Max Thompson's Learning Focused Strategies