Offers twenty graphic organizer projects with instructions, templates, lists of objectives and materials, item descriptions, and suggestions for using the item for alternate topics on ready-to-reproduce pages.
The book is presented in a handy lay-flat binding for easy photocopying or scanning. Includes access to free downloadable PDF versions of many of the graphic organizers included in this book.
Organized into fiction, nonfiction, and word-study units, 32 graphic organizers build reading strategies such as predicting, identifying main ideas, making inferences, analyzing cause and effect, and drawing conclusions.
Provides lessons and teaching strategies to help students improve their skills in fiction and nonfiction writing, from descriptive paragraphs to persuasive essays.
58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way.
All the graphic organizers offered in this book promote active learning, which is central to effective learning. Using the organizers as guides, students are prompted to ask questions and are encouraged to apply critical thinking skills.
Offers forms for fourth- to eighth-grade English, math, science, and social science classes
Tools to Foster Critical and Creative Thinking Patti Drapeau ... In a middle school literacy unit, the teacher focuses on the story The Field of the Dogs by Katherine Paterson. She creates the activity grid in Figure 12.4 to use with ...
Template and detailed rubric included! Character Descriptions: Students choose a character from the novel and use the provided space to illustrate and describe them. A great way for students to practice pulling details from text.
Explains various cycles, including the twenty-four hour daily cycle, the seasons, weather cycles, the freeze-thaw cycle, and the lunar cycle.
Fifty reproducible, leveled literature response sheets that help you manage students' different learning needs easily and effectively.