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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Identify/infer Character Traits [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This page contains links for three graphic organizers. Students will use graphic organizers to identify character traits, infer character traits, and support inferences with text evidence.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Identify and Infer Character Traits[pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students will identify character traits directly and inferentially with the help of this graphic organizer. Students will summarize their findings after completing the graphic organizer.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using the Five Finger Rule

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Students identify text features in nonfiction, as they continue to study cells' function as building blocks of organisms, and summarize the requirements for cells to live.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.4: Produce Writing Appropriate to Task and Purpose

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 99 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
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Other

Fdlrs: Thinking Maps: Examples From Brevard Public Schools

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?

For Teachers K - 1st
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....
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Whoever You Are

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this read-aloud instructional activity, young scholars will identify similarities among people around the world in order to determine the theme of the story. Included is a detailed lesson plan, graphic organizer for guided practice,...
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Other

Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Work Out Together

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will read an article and determine the author's point and identify the reasons the author gives to support his or her point. This lesson requires analysis by the students and a great deal of higher-order thinking as they...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
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Read Works

Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on author's purpose. In the first activity, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second activity, students use...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Main Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this lesson students begin to identify the main idea of a story they read or hear. Students use graphic organizers to discover the main idea of The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, and Marsupial Sue, by John Lithgow.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: I Chart

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A printable inquiry chart designed to help students ask questions and collect information from various texts when conducting research on any topic. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Bio Media Associates: Learning Programs for Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides photographs, animations, essays, teaching resources, multimedia, and other information about biological systems and organisms. It features a monthly contest and quiz in which students and teachers identify a mystery...