This graphic organizer will help students compare and contrast two characters in a story, novel, or film.

This graphic organizer will help students analyze a character by examining the character’s actions, thoughts, words, and appearance.

This graphic organizer will help students analyze a character by examining the character’s actions, thoughts, words, and appearance.

This graphic organizer will help students analyze a character’s main personality trait or attribute.

This graphic organizer will help students analyze a character’s main personality trait or attribute. The organizer includes a word bank of character traits.

This graphic organizer will help students analyze a character’s main personality trait or attribute. Students will find four pieces of text evidence which will reveal the trait or attribute.

Students can use this Main Idea graphic organizer to identify several main or central ideas of an expository text as well as the details that support it.

This graphic organizer is useful in allowing students to visualize the main idea of an expository text, the most important details that support it, as well as the facts which make up those details.

Students can use this Main Idea graphic organizer to identify the main or central idea of an expository text as well as the details that support it. If you wish, you can have students write the merely interesting details on the waves below the fish.

Storyboards allow students to tell a story with drawings panel by panel (like a comic strip or comic book). These can be used to plan a written or digital story. Generally there is little writing.

This graphic organizer can be used to help students identify the setting characters, problem/solution, and resolution (ending) of a story or book. Teachers may use completed graphic organizer to check for comprehension.

This graphic organizer allows students to identify and visualize all parts of a book or story. It may also be used as a comprehension check, or pre-writing, or post-writing tool.

This simple graphic organizer allows students to identify the main events of a story or book in a beginning-middle-end structure. Generally, the begging includes the setting and characters. The middle includes the problem and the events leading to a solution. The end includes the resolution and perhaps an answer to the question: “How are the characters different than they were at the beginning of the story?”

This graphic organizer allows students to record connections between the text they are reading and their own lives, beliefs, ideas, or experiences. The “text” they are using may be an excerpt, story, book, or film. The more authentic and deep the connections, the greater the students’ understanding of the original text. Additionally, making connections requires students to read more actively and thoughtfully leading to greater student engagement.

This graphic organizer allows students to record connections between the text they are reading and other texts. The “text” they are using may be an excerpt, story, book, or film. The more authentic and deep the connections, the greater the students’ understanding of the original text. Additionally, making connections requires students to read more actively and thoughtfully leading to greater student engagement.

This graphic organizer allows students to record connections between the text they are reading and the larger world. The “text” they are using may be an excerpt, story, book, or film. The more authentic and deep the connections, the greater the students’ understanding of the original text. Additionally, making connections requires students to read more actively and thoughtfully leading to greater student engagement.