Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., chart, web) organizing material collected from text or technological sources. SPI 0501.4.3

Links verified on 2/27/2012

1. Character Trading Cards - This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
2. Circle Plot Diagram - The tool can be used as a pre-writing graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure (e.g., If You Take a Mouse to School), as well as a post-reading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
3. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
4. Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
5. Exploratree - free online library of thinking guides - you can print, but you can not save
6. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
7. Follow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (3-5 activities included)
8. Graphic Organizer Links - links to a large number of graphic organizers provided by Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, LA - Second page of links from the same school system
9. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
10. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
11. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
12. Graphic Organizers to use in Note Taking
    1. Cluster Notes - Used to generate and organize ideas in early stages of reading or writing or thinking process
    2. Inference Notes - This tool is specifically designed to help students analyze a fictional character by finding and interpreting quotes by or about a character
    3. Pre-Reading Notes - reinforces students' note making skills by guiding them through a series of questions and activities
    4. Summary Notes - designed to be used while reading a book or article which must then be summarized
    5. Target Notes - useful to generate/expand as well as narrow/refine depending on the needs of the assignment or task
13. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
14. Idea Graphic Chart - worksheet - Fill in the supporting sentences that best fits the main idea.
15. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
16. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
17. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
18. Kinds of Concept Maps - examples of four major categories of concept maps [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
19. Notetaker from Read/Write/Think - Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
20. Online Mind Mapping Software - Mindomo - Just click "Try It Now" to begin. This site lets you create graphic organizers with topics, connections, labels, text notes, images, web links, and many formatting options. You can save your mind maps, print them, or export them as images
21. Problem/Solution Chart - Fill out this chart as a whole class activity brainstorming session to learn to recognize problems and solutions in stories. This uses cause and effect, but can be adapted.
22. Read/Write/Think Webbing Tool - The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
23. Story Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (3-5 activities included)
24. Story Map - The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in pre-writing and post-reading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
25. Teaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories.
26. Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps - Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
27. Thinking Maps - several different examples of ways to organize information.
28. Tips on Making Your Own Concept Maps [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
29. Use Excel to make a Venn Diagram
30. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn
31. Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think

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