Graphic Organizer Teacher Resources

Help your class organize ideas, prepare for writing and speaking projects, keep track of information, and more with our collection of graphic organizers.
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My Opinion Template

For Students 4th - 5th
Fourth and fifth graders identify opinions and supporting details with this graphic organizer. Consider giving your class different categories to create opinions around. There is space to identify four different opinions. 
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Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Explore nonfiction writing by comparing and contrasting two different texts. After reading two nonfiction books, articles, or magazines, students utilize a graphic organizer to record their similarities and differences. They answer study...
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Text Features of a Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Bring the enjoyable story of Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel to your young readers. After reading the story as a class, students answer questions about a reading and make a graphic organizer.  They make predictions,...
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Community Ripple

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Originally designed to be used along with a text that is not included, this plan contains a graphic organizer and word guessing game to help readers use decoding strategies to gain new vocabulary. A set of questions relating to community...
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The Mongol Empire

For Students 7th - 10th
For this Mongol Empire worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer that requires them to read the noted section in their textbook and record details about Kublai Khan and Mongol rule.
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The United States and Canada: Climate and Vegetation

For Students 7th - 10th
Display U.S. and Canadian climate and vegetation through this text-companion activity. Learners read about the geography of these regions, take notes, and answer 3 comprehension questions as they read the selection. A graphic organizer...
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Worksheet for Choosing a Research Paper Topic & Developing a Thesis Statement

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
How do you choose a research topic? This helpful graphic organizer is provided to aid middle and high schoolers in organizing their initial thoughts and choosing a topic. They have to narrow their topic by culture, time frame, event,...
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Painting Analysis Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
For this visual arts worksheet, students select paintings to analyze. Students then respond to 3 short answer questions and complete a graphic organizer based on their evaluation of the art.
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Constitutional Sort

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this U.S. Constitution worksheet, high schoolers complete a graphic organizer that requires them to list responsibilities of members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
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Many Passages: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Brookes

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Examine three perspectives of the slave trade - captain, sailor, and captive - through this collaborative analysis activity. Small groups study one perspective with a primary source to analyze. They discern what is a historical fact and...
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Causes and Effects: European Discovery of the Americas

For Students 5th - 8th
Get your scholars examining short and long-term causes and effects of the European discovery of the Americas. This graphic organizer is simple and easy to understand: learners fill in long and short-term causes of the discovery, then...
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Cause and Effect: Scientific Revolution

For Students 7th - 9th
Graphic organizers are great! Help learners see and understand the causes and short and long-term effects of the Scientific Revolution. Great for visual learners.
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Cause and Effects: Industrial Revolution

For Students 6th - 8th
Graphic organizers are wonderful ways to break up and present information about a number of topics. This useful resource helps learners establish the long and short-term causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution.
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Cause and Effect: Nationalist Revolution in China

For Students 7th - 9th
This graphic organizer gives the class four boxes to fill in. Each box is to house causes and effects for long and short-term that stemmed from the Nationalist Revolution in China. Tip: Place this worksheet under the document camera and...
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Story Elements

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Review story elements with your class using this resource. Learners can take a story they have read as a class and identify story elements. They focus on characters, setting, the introduction, and plot. Then, they use graphic organizers...
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The Five-Paragraph Essay: A Framework for Expository Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Looking for a PowerPoint presentation that models the framework for the traditional five-paragraph essay? Look no further. Here, the brief explanations are clear and concise, and color codes indicate the thesis sentence, the topic...
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Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Readers use an "Idea Tree" graphic organizer to discern the main idea and supporting details of several passages included in this presentation. The three passages offer opportunities for guided and independent practice.
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Discussion Web

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Get your class talking, even debating, about Gary Paulsen's popular novel Canyons. As they finish chapters 10-12, they complete the following discussion web concerning Brennan and the skull. They fill out the graphic organizer provided...
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Fahrenheit 451: KWHL Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Turn your readers into "examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators," with a KWHL strategy designed for Fahrenheit 451. Individuals fill out a KWHL graphic organizer about censorship and then share responses with a group. The...
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Of Mice and Men: KWHL

For Students 8th - 9th
Introduce your readers to the KWHL chart, similar to a KWL chart, only there's an extra column for the how. This graphic organizer was designed as a prereading activity, but you'll have to model how to complete it in a meaningful way...
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Something's Fishy. . . Classes and Qualities of Fish and Seafood

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
If you are going to eat seafood, it helps to understand the different classifications. In this presentation, viewers learn to differentiate two types of finfish and the variations of edible shellfish. They also examine the...
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Happy 14th B’ak’tun, the start of the next Great Mayan cycle

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
The ancient Mayans had a complex calendar and number system with a rich history. In fact, the date 12/21/2012 was the center of much controversy as to whether or not it was the end of time. It wasn't the end of time, but it was the end...
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Avoid Boring Words

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Good, bad, thing, a lot, very. Really? Encourage young writers to use two graphic organizers to create a bank of better choices to replace weary, stale, flat, and boring words in their essays. Consider enlarging one of the templates to...
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Vocabulary Boxes

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Visual vocabulary. What fun! As part of vocabulary study, learners use a graphic organizer to list a word, its part of speech, a showing sentence, definition, and an illustration. Space is provided on the template for three words.

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