GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Help students make sense of course content using a fully editable array of Venn Diagrams, tournament brackets and more. Featuring digital and print-and-play variants: this collection is a veritable Swiss army knife for interactive worksheets when you need them. And to make things even more classroom friendly, every resource in this collection is fully editable right inside of Google Slides — so you’ll never have to worry about making photocopies covered in scraps of masking tape or White-Out to hide any changes that you need to make.

Diamond Mined Details

Unearth key takeaways with Diamond Mined Details! This graphic organizer helps students categorize insights into 12 diamonds of varying sizes, highlighting the most important ideas like gems. A creative way to boost reading comprehension and critical thinking!

Project Tracking Thermometer

Heat things up with the Project Tracking Thermometer, a self-paced graphic organizer that can give students increased ownership over any longer term assignment. This hot little resource is fully editable, and features multiple checkpoints for self reflection.

Project Tracker

Help students stay organized and accountable with the Project Tracker! This simple yet effective tool encourages students to set daily goals, reflect on their progress, and build the self-discipline they need to succeed in both group and individual projects.

Concept Shape Connectors

Want to challenge students’ abilities to make connections between all sorts of items related to your course content? Your classes will love pushing their creative limits with this fully editable array of Concept Shape Connectors. Simply pick a shape and pick your sides!

Bullseye Brain Map

Many people instinctively generate ideas in list or paragraph form, but some students benefit by thinking visually. Bullseye maps can immediately help show us some of the relationships between ideas and can spur further ideas in one direction while keeping us on target.

Abacus Organizer

If you’re looking for a planning document that you can count on to help students structure everything from an essay to a full-blown research paper, the Abacus Organizer is a graphic organizing game-changer. Three, four, and five pronged arguments take shape in seconds.

Vocab Paint Chip Challenge

If you’ve ever run into students struggling to master new vocabulary terms, linking these unfamiliar items to words that already live inside of their everyday speech can be an excellent trick to help the learning stick. This resource offers a spectrum of possibilities.

Fishbone Diagram

Is there something fishy that needs fixing? A fishbone diagram is a visualization tool for categorizing potential causes of a problem. This tool is used in order to identify a problem’s root causes. Simply feed a problem into the fish’s mouth to figure out what stinks.

Blooming Lotus Organizer

Creativity and critical thinking are in bloom with this powerful graphic organizer designed to help your students learn how they can grow and stretch their arguments in all sorts of beautiful directions. This elegant, artful tool for argument pre-planning is a must-see.

Subject Matter Sudoku

Turn any traditional review activity into a multi-layered brain teaser that’s sure to keep your students guessing (and laughing!) right up until the final bell sounds. Subject Matter Sudoku blends course content with the familiar gameplay of this addictive puzzle game.

Double Bubble Diagram

A double bubble diagram is a compare and contrast graphic organizer that visualizes the comparison between two entities or ideas. These maps help you identify the similarities and differences between various concepts, and are a fantastic tool for brainstorming and more.

FQR Collector

Facts/Questions/Responses is a great way to take a closer look at any text. Students update their charts as they read to keep tabs on a mix-and-match combination of factual information, follow-up questions, and personal reactions. Just like that: instant conversation.

Mr. T Chart

Sometimes, you simply can’t beat a classic. And the T chart can be used to compare and contrast two things, list advantages and disadvantages, separate facts from opinions, and help students see two sides of all kinds of issues. We pity the fool who doesn’t love Mr. T!

Twisting Timeline

Timelines are a universal learning tool. When information is presented only in words, it can be challenging to grasp all the concepts explained in the text. But charting key events along a visual timeline can be a powerful way to help students take in the big picture!

Pro and Con Countdown

Weighing up the pros and cons can speed up the decision-making process, improve your understanding of the situation, and help you avoid decision-making paralysis. This simple two-column graphic organizer is designed to help your students size up both sides of a story.

Printable Hexagonal Thinking

This graphic organizer all begins with a simple shape: the humble hexagon. This versatile six-sided figure finds its way into all sorts of board games to help gamers create modular boards that change from game to game. But guess what? It works for learning content, too!

Venn Diagrams

Venn Diagrams make use of overlapping circles to illustrate the relationships between two or more sets of items. Often, they serve to graphically organize things, highlighting how the items are similar and different. This resource contains two and three circle variants.

Bite Sized Biography

The Bite Sized Biography puts a movie star twist on the traditional “do research about [subject x]” assignment and helps take the sting out of any self-paced research process. As each of these modular boxes start to fill up, students gain confidence and build momentum.

Sequence Stepping Stones

Looking for a graphic organizer to help students break larger, complicated processes down into an easy to follow stepwise flowchart? The Sequence Stepping Stone activity follows the sage wisdom to “keep it simple, silly” and provides students with structure and support.

Problem Solver Pro and Con

Life is full of choices. But far too often, we jump to conclusions or simply follow the first solution that presents itself without taking the proper time to weigh all of the relevant information at hand. Thankfully, we’ve got the Problem Solver “Pro” to help us out!

KWL Collector

Pre-teaching and drawing from background knowledge might just be the single most overlooked part of the profession. Far too often, classes plow ahead without first taking a moment to take a baseline of each student’s understanding. But the KWL Collector is here to help!

Understanding Evolved

One of the fastest ways to ensure that newly taught concepts will stick is to give our students the opportunity to anchor these exciting discoveries to existing schema that they’ve already stored deep in their memories. Understanding Evolved helps learners make history.

Tournament Brackets

With printable or digital plug-and-play variants featuring 8, 16, and 32 team tournaments – this graphic organizer is ready for game time in any classroom. Fire it up and watch your students jump into a spirited debate inspired by any subject related to your curriculum.

Suspect Sus Out

Transform readers into text detectives! Whether “methinks the lady doth protest too much” or you’ve got a sneaking suspicion that “one of these things is not like the other,” the Suspect Sus Out adds a clever Whodunnit twist to any traditional reading response journal.

Persuasive Planner

Great writing isn’t just about putting the right words on the page – it’s about knowing just *where* to put them, and in having confidence in the broader structure of the broader point that you’re trying to convey. The Persuasive Planner is perfect for essays and more.

Notice Like Wonder Notebook

Guided notes can be a godsend if you’re trying to help larger groups of students make simultaneous sense of a text that’s being read, viewed, or spoken aloud over a longer period of time. The Notice Like Wonder Notebook helps students show what they know as they read.

Frayer Models

A Frayer Model is a graphic organizer to help students determine the meaning of vocabulary words encountered while listening, reading, and/or viewing texts. It can be used to activate background knowledge, monitor vocabulary, or help assess what students have learned.

Empathy Maps

An Empathy Map is a powerful and widely-used tool that is popular in everything from business to politics to customer satisfaction. These fully editable templates can be used in almost any content area, and can help provide incredible insight into the eyes of another.
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