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10 Graphic Organizers - Comprehension Charts to Review Any Text!
A set of ten blank, subject-agnostic graphic-organizer templates for analyzing/reviewing any text (reading comprehension scaffolds).
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Reading Templates
Reading Templates are useful tools for organizing and planning reading activities. These templates include guided reading plans, book reports, response journals, and reading logs. By providing structure, you can monitor progress, encourage reflective thinking, and tailor instruction to meet student needs. Reading Templates support literacy development and make reading sessions more productive. Use these resources to foster a love for reading and improve comprehension skills.
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7th Grade Common Core Reading Literature Mastery Wheels and Answer Sheets
A set of 'mastery wheel' graphic organizers and answer sheets that let teachers target individual 7th grade Common Core Reading Literature standards using any short story, poem, drama, or novel the class is reading.
Sequencing & retellingPlot, setting & theme
Digital Story Maps Templates (Editable on Google Docs)
A set of 10 graphic-organizer story-map templates that build reading comprehension and summary skills by having students record key story elements (characters, setting, problem, events, resolution, theme) from novels, short stories, or informational texts.
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Writing & reflection
Analyzing Details Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Introduce students to the art of literary analysis with these captivating music-based activities! Taking inspiration from Nancy Dean's Voice Lessons, our Song Lessons module employs various genres of pop music (including country, rock, and…
Writing & reflection
Analyzing Imagery Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Teach students how to analyze literature with these engaging music activities! Inspired by Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons , Song Lessons uses pop music (country, rock, pop, and folk) to teach the impact of literary devices in literature.
Plot, setting & theme
Jigsaw Reading Method – Teacher Planning Guide
Plan a jigsaw reading activity around fiction or nonfiction using the teacher planning page and group overview. You can give students the same text with different expert focuses, or different texts with the same focus. Choices include main idea , text features, character, and plot. Teacher and student trackers record assignments and due dates, while cut-out cards keep the task visible in reading notebooks.
Writing & reflection
Analyzing Tone Through Pop Music Song Lessons
Teach students how to analyze literature with these engaging music activities! Inspired by Nancy Dean’s Voice Lessons , Song Lessons uses pop music (country, rock, pop, and folk) to teach the impact of literary devices in literature.
Plot, setting & themeWriting & reflection
Bilingual Theme Graphic Organizer
This resource is a Bilingual Theme Graphic Organizer . It is offered in Spanish and English. Just print and go. This graphic organizer will help students as they work to determine the theme of a story. Answer key examples are included.
Writing & reflection
Main Idea Graphic Organizers
This organizer is supplied in matching five-page Word and PDF files. The first page asks students to read a text, highlight supporting details, and record the main idea in a central circle with six details around it. Supply the reading passage before the activity and choose the pages suited to your lesson.
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Writing & reflection
CHARACTER: The FIVE Elements of a Story Graphic Organizers
Provide a set of reusable graphic organizers focused on analyzing story characters, usable with any grade level or reading text.
Writing & reflection
Checklist for Canadian Expectations for Grade 3
Checklist for Canadian Expectations for Grade 3 This innovative teaching resource combines curriculum expectations within a convenient checklist format.
Sequencing & retellingPlot, setting & theme
Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Oklahoma
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Oklahoma standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Arizona
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Arizona standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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Writing & reflectionEditable templates
Curriculum Map for 1st Grade - Kentucky
A month-by-month curriculum map for 1st grade, adapted to Kentucky standards, listing standards to be covered across Math, ELA/reading strands, Science, and Social Studies.
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Writing & reflection
Universal Article Analysis Template
This resource is a Universal Article Analysis Template. It comes with an analysis template and an evaluation rubric. Students will be able to detail key terms, important dates and so much more after reading an article.
Plot, setting & themeVocabulary & word meaning
Digital Graphic Organizers Pack
A pack of reusable digital graphic organizers for literature analysis, usable with any book.
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Writing & reflection
Documentary Critique Guide
The Documentary Critique Guide is a practical and approachable teaching aid tailored to enhance the comprehension skills of students in grades 9 through 12.
Plot, setting & themePoetry & figurative language
Year of Graphic Organizers
A large collection of blank graphic organizer templates covering the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, proofreading, final copy) and literacy skills (story elements, vocabulary, book reports, figurative language, timelines, outlines) for teacher use across a school year.
Inference & text evidence
Gold Medal Reading Strategies Activity
A reusable reading-strategies graphic organizer set that has students make and check predictions, describe characters and themselves with adjectives, and summarize using any grade-level text.
Sequencing & retellingPlot, setting & theme
Graphic Organizers Jamboard Templates Set 2
A second set of digital Google Jamboard graphic-organizer templates (compare/contrast, cause & effect, main idea & details, plot diagram, Q&A, quotations, reasons & evidence, sequencing) for interactive reading/writing organization, accessed via Google Drive.
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Graphic: Reading Connections
A one-page reading-response graphic organizer template that helps students connect new reading material to prior knowledge, extend their understanding, and identify points needing clarification.
Inference & text evidenceWriting & reflection
Making Inferences Chart
A reusable graphic organizer teaching students to make inferences ('reading between the lines') by combining textual evidence with prior knowledge, usable with any book.
Writing & reflection
Note Making Sheets
This resource is for note making sheets that your students will really enjoy. It is a 1-page sheet to print off and distribute to your students anytime they are going to read a new book or explore a new content topic.
Inference & text evidencePlot, setting & theme
Pre-Reading Templates Graphic Organizers and Study Unit Grade 6 7 8 EL
Prepare your readers with this all-in-one Pre-Reading Graphic Organizers and Study Unit! Created for 5th, 6th, and 7th Grades, homeschoolers, and EFL/ESL learners, this amazing resource includes 30 pre-reading graphic organizer templates and 11 pre-reading study guides. Contents: 2 KWL Charts 2 Story Prediction Maps 2 Schema Activation…