This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...

This site provides a nonfiction graphic organizer that will help students organize an argument.

This lesson provides real-world examples that demonstrate how to organize data into matrices. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "Using Matrices to Organize Data."

This lesson provides some real-world examples that demonstrate how to organize data into matrices. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Using Matrices to Organize Data."

This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.

This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...

This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...

Explains how to collect and organize data for an experiment. Describes how to make a table and graph the data, and when to use different types of graphs. Next, it discusses which variable should be on the x- or y-axis of a graph, and how...

This lesson will help prepare students to first form an opinion and then provide a correctly written response. Students organize their thoughts, agree or disagree, define the problem, support opinion, and conclude in 3-5 sentences. This...

This slideshow lesson focuses on organizational structures for narratives including a review of narratives and a list of possible organizational structure types: chronological or sequential order, climactic order, in media, and...

This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. A paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.

This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. A paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.

This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. A paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.

This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. A paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.

This page is a part of the Classics in the History of Psychology site. A paper originally from 1947 on value and need as factors in organizing a perception.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of five graphic organizers that help with organizing time.

Numerous collections of cartoons, buttons, posters, murals, photographs, and similar artifacts, all pertaining to history of American labor, especially its drive to organize and its history of protest. Stretches back to the earliest days...

This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...

This tutorial focuses on how to take research notes using two slideshows. The first presentation compares taking research notes to class notes and offers 3 methods of note taking that would work for either: Cornell notes, index cards,...

This slideshow tutorial focuses on organizing an analytical paper; it defines analysis and outlines the basic five- paragraph essay format. It discusses what goes into the introduction, the body paragraphs, and the conclusion. It...

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...

A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...

A printable Venn diagram to use when comparing and contrasting two things or topics. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also provided.

Working with students on identifying problem and solution in their reading? Here is a simple concept, with a printable chart, for teaching and reinforcing this concept. Applicable for any subject area, could be used (modified) at any level.