Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection. SPI 0601.3.11

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1. Bibliographic Blunders (6 - 8) students use note cards to collect information
2. Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
3. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included
4. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
5. Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
6. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
7. Graphic Organizer Links - links to a large number of graphic organizers provided by Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, LA - Second page of links from the same school system
8. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
9. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
10. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
11. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
12. Idea Graphic Chart - worksheet - Fill in the supporting sentences that best fits the main idea.
13. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
14. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
15. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
16. Making an Outline - interactive outline maker
17. Outline - information on how to map out an outline.
18. Problem/Solution Chart - Fill out this chart as a whole class activity brainstorming session to learn to recognize problems and solutions in stories. This uses cause and effect, but can be adapted.
19. Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool - The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
20. Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
21. Take Notes - students evaluate what items should be included in the opening paragraph of a news story
22. Teaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories.
23. Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps - Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
24. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn
25. Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think

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