Lesson Plan
Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
Students can use these printables to visualize how ideas fit together, and you can use them to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes.
- Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Graphic organizers help students construct meaning. The following learning tools can be used with any book and across all grade levels. Use them to assess your students understanding of what they are reading, observe their thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently.
Organizer Patterns
• Organizational Outline
• Idea Web
• Cyclical
• Venn Diagram
• Overlapping Concepts
• Cause-Effect
• Timeline
Reading Comprehension
• KWL Chart
• Author Tools
• What's the Main Idea?
Story Elements: Character Analysis and Setting
• Character Sheet and Traits List
• Character Comparison Sheet
• Setting Stage
• Setting Comparison
Story Elements: Plot and Sequence
• Plot Diagram
• Plot Sheet and Conflict List
• Problem and Solution Diagram
• Follow the Clues
• Sequence of Events
• Story Map
• Story Train
Assess Students
Related Resources
These seven lessons and seven reproducibles provide teaching strategies to help students make all three levels of connections -- to their life experiences, to other texts, and to events and issues in the world around them.
In this unit, students are paired with similar readers in their class to engage in meaningful reading partnerships.
Offers a lesson plan in which students learn about the solar system and sharpen their research skills. Involves researching a question and recording findings on a graphic organizer.
Use these lesson plans to provide students with a strong foundation for reading, writing, and using nonfiction.
- Subjects:Curriculum Development, Literature, Reading Comprehension, Reading Assessment, Literary Devices, Literature Appreciation, New Teacher Resources, Teacher Tips and Strategies
- Skills:Literary Elements, Reading Comprehension
- Duration:1 Class Period
