Austin Independent School District: Graphic Organizers [Pdf]

This comprehensive writing guide teaches writing strategies that can be used in any subject area and with any grade level. Each of the eleven chapters discusses and demonstrates a different element of good writing. Many also provide...

Learn what guided reading is and how it to use it in the classroom to increase literacy skills. Discover guided reading strategies to use before, during, and after reading. Then follow-up with information on how to create right questions...

A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...

This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...

A series of graphic organizers shows the progression of learning about literary genre, beginning in kindergarten and building through to fifth grade.

A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.

A slide show explaining different types of fallacies in persuasive texts including personal attack, bandwagon, appeal to authority, and many more. Then try to find the fallacy in several examples; answers and explanations provided.

This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading lesson where learners can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion questions,...

A graphic organizer designed to help students understand characterization by visualizing a character and describing that character's actions and feelings throughout a story.

Is Pluto still a planet? Using this popular question, kids are introduced to graphic organizers as a writing tool. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how to use them and work together with a partner to research whether Pluto is a...