• Brainstorm a shared experience for writing workshop.
• Use text structures to guide student comprehension.
• Identify the characteristics of story characters.

• Track processes and procedures in a flow chart lab report.
• Create an advanced organizer for students to complete before, during, or after reading.
• Categorize collections of vocabulary words.
  

• Identify the process used in problem solving.
• Create a web comparing math concepts.
• Use vocabulary organizers to expand math vocabulary.

• Diagram the causes and effects of various historical events.
• Begin a unit with a KWL.
• Create an outline for a report.

• Character Exploration
• Comparison
• Literary Web
• Mythic Journey
• Persuasive
• Poetic Analysis

• Lab Report
• Scientific Method
• Simple Cycles

• Graph Theory Problem
• Why You Buy

• Cause & Effect
• Events
• Historic Period
• History Web

Making Bigger Words

This graphic organizer is an activity where students are given a scrambled vocabulary word. They combine the letters in the word to create other smaller words in order to determine the bigger word. Students can learn to look for patterns (word families, word chuncks, etc.) to come up with more words.

Words in Context

This graphic organizer is a vocabulary activity where students are given a word and asked to describe what the word is like and what the word is not like. Students also identify examples and non-examples of the word.

Concept Word Map

This graphic organizer is a vocabulary activity that asks students to answer these questions about a vocabulary word: What is it? What is it like? What are some examples?

Word Map

This vocabulary graphic organizer asks students to identify a synonym, an antonym, an example and a non-example of a word.

Word Questioning

This is a vocabulary graphic organizer that identifies a word and asks specific questions about the word.

Advanced Organizer

This organizer starts with a collection of vocabulary words. Students are asked to categorize the words.

Cause and Effect Pattern

This text structure links reasons with results. It is characterized by an interaction between at least two ideas or events, one taking an action and another resulting from that action.

Comparison/Contrast Pattern

This text structure demonstrates the apparent likeness and differences between two or more things, ideas, or topics.

Descriptive Pattern

This text structure gives more information about a topic by attributes, examples, or elaboration.

Listing pattern

This text structure is characterized by a listing of facts, events, procedures, steps, or ideas. The order of the items is not significant.

Problem-Solution Pattern

This text structure is created by an interaction of two or more factors, one citing a problem and another providing a potential answer to that problem.

Sequence pattern

This text structure relates the order of events, ideas, steps or stages and shows how a set of topics is bound together on the basis of commonality.