Target skills found in your state's standards with graphic organizers designed to build reading comprehension and develop writing skills. Students can practice key skills such as comparing and contrasting, sequencing, identifying main ideas, planning, and organizing--plus lots more! With over 50 fun and engaging reproducible organizers included, you'll find ways to build core skills and meet your state's standards.
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
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.
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 ...
The book also provides differentiated instruction strategies and an interactive CD that allows organizers to be completed on a classroom whiteboard, computer projection device, or desktop computer.
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.
Skills Connection Type of Writing— autobiographies Publishing—creates presentation format Bloom's Level— ... The Presentation Time graphic organizer allows students to brainstorm creative ideas for presenting their writing to the class.
Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.
This 128-page book is packed with teacher-generated ideas for multiple subject-area uses that can be adapted for students of varied ages, abilities, and learning styles, as well as for individual and whole-class needs.
30 Graphic Organizers for Writing (Graphic Organizers to Improve Literacy Skills)