Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: More Free Graphic Organizers for Studying and Analyzing
A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Vocabulary Charts
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides two reproducible charts for vocabulary acquisition. Students can complete these charts as they encounter new vocabulary words or as a means of reviewing before a vocabulary quiz or test.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Seed Discussion Organizer
A printable graphic organizer students can use to organize their thoughts when a new concept is introduced. Seed Discussion categories include things the learner does not understand, things that are surprising or interesting, new...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Word Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer is a word map helping students with building vocabulary. Students are asked to define, use the word in a sentence, give a synonym and draw a picture of the word. This is...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Content Vocabulary [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will assist student with learning technical words from content area reading. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze a constructed response question. Students will read the question closely and use this planning tool to plan constructed responses. This graphic organizer is a...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lunar Language
This lesson engages students in listening and viewing comprehension strategies to help them learn about the phases of the moon. Students will use a specialized graphic organizer to draw and describe observed moon phases. A sheet with ABC...
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.
Other
Student Handouts: Textbook Vocabulary Word Boxes
This is a graphic organizer for students to learn textbook vocabulary. They fill in the location of the word, the vocabulary word, text definition, their own definition, and an illustration. PDF Reader is needed and available on the website
Read Works
Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
Other
Reading Educator: Frayer Model
Learn new words using the Frayer Model and graphic organizer. Click the video link to watch a class using this model to learn new vocabulary words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...
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...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Can Infer Meaning of a Word in Context [Pdf]
This activity contains two graphic organizers that will help students infer the meaning of words in context. Students can use these graphic organizers as they read nonfiction texts, particularly while reading in the content area.
Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Nonfiction Notepads [Pdf]
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following on each notepad response:...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick Writing Activity
Young scholars use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Contextual Redefinition [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about contextual redefinitions, an engaging instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement the strategy, understand how to measure progress with contextual redefinitions, find research that...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Meaning: Semantic Map
A lesson plan in which students complete a graphic organizer to learn a new word. Materials are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Nonfiction Pyramid
A printable pyramid for use with nonfiction texts while students identify the main ideas and supporting details within a text. Students also determine author's purpose and key vocabulary words. Directions on how to use this type of...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Interactive Journals [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about interactive vocabulary journals, engaging instructional strategy tools. They will learn how to implement interactive jounals, understand how to measure progress with interactive journals, find research...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building Word Castles
In this lesson, students will explore unfamiliar words found in various picture books by Patricia Polacco. Students will discover the meanings of unfamiliar words by using a dictionary and find synonyms and antonyms with a thesaurus. The...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
This lesson is part of a week-long unit. It focuses on the pre-reading phase of guided reading. It aims to activate prior knowledge, preview vocabulary, and set a purpose for reading. This book deals with a very sensitive issue that most...
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic maps, find research that supports semantic...