100 ready-to-use graphic organizers that help elementary students learn Graphic organizers are a powerful metacognitive teaching and learning tool and this book features 100 graphic organizers for teachers in grades K-5—double the number of any other book on the market. These graphic organizers can be used as before learning, during learning, or after learning activities, and support students' learning in the major content areas: English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Teachers can use each graphic organizer as-is or customize for their own classroom's unique needs. Tips for classroom implementation and information on how the tool supports learning A Difficulty Dial that indicates the complexity of each graphic organizer Two Student Samples demonstrating how the organizer may be used with younger and older students This book gives teachers in grades K-5 a powerful way to help students understand relationships between facts, terms, and ideas.

Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom success Veteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information. Providing a visual representation that uses symbols to express ideas, concepts, and convey meaning, graphic organizers help to depict relationships between facts, terms, and ideas. The author demonstrates how graphic organizers have proven to be a powerful teaching and learning strategy. Includes 100 graphic organizers-more than any comparable book Included graphic organizers can be used before-, during-, and after-learning activities across the content areas Contains easy-to-follow instructions for teachers on how to use and adapt the book's graphic organizers Offers strategies for teachers to create their own graphic organizers for different grade levels The author Katherine McKnight is a noted literacy educator.

Presents the use of graphic organizers to teach reading, writing, math and more. Includes reproducibles.

Provides graphic organizers to help students get the most out of independent reading.

Easy-to-make 3-D graphic organizers help students focus their thinking, retain key information, and show off what they've learned! Includes interactive (writeable) versions of each graphic organizer!

Graphic Organizers for Teachers is a resource designed to help both teachers and students organize their thinking. With 100 designs for a variety of purposes, you'll always find something to fit your needs in the classroom or at home! Included are 100 resources that help with skills like: *Showing Main Idea & Details *Classifying, Grouping, & Sorting *Determining Story Elements *Understanding Related Vocabulary Words *Comparing & Contrasting *Ordering Chronologically *Showing Steps in Sequences and Procedures *Showing Affinities *and many more!

A guide for using graphic organizers to incorporate the Common Core Standards for Reading into the classroom. Includes reproducible graphic organizers, charts, and suggested books and texts.

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.

Contains fifty reproducible, whiteboard-ready graphic organizers designed to help second- through fifth-grade students better understand content; and includes a CD with PDF and Notebook versions of each.

Provides graphic organizers that range from annotations and literature circle notes to Venn diagrams and vocabulary squares. Each graphic organizer comes with: Background information and theoretical foundations, different ways to use each tool to help students read, write, speak, and think better, a range of note-taking strategies to help students succeed in all academic classes, student samples, including many from Jim's ACCESS (Academic Success) program for struggling students who want to succeed.