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4th Grade - Pre-Reading Strategies

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Use a variety of pre-reading strategies (e.g., organize prior knowledge using a graphic organizer, explore significant words to be encountered, relate text to prior personal and historical experiences and current events). 0401.6.1


Links verified on 10/27/2011


  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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  3. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included) [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.]
  4. Drag and Spell - Drag a vowel sound into the slot to spell the word correctly. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  5. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit MS Word document to download This link includes something for the teacher to print
  6. 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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  7. Exploratree - free online library of thinking guides - you can print, but you can not save
  8. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
  9. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsFollow the Clues - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print
  10. 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
  11. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsGraphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
  12. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format
  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. An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print
  14. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsIndex of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
  15. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsInstructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer Internet4Classrooms step-by-step module
  16. 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. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  17. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsKinds 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.]
  18. Main Idea Graphic Chart - worksheet - Fill in the supporting sentences that best fits the main idea.
  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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  20. Pre-Reading Activities - list of pre-reading activities and games [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.]
  21. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsProblem/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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  23. Star Words - This activity provides practice in sight recognition and spelling of high frequency words This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  24. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsStory Board - a graphic organizer to help your students make predictions about a story (K-2 and 3-5 activities included) An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format This link includes something for the teacher to print
  25. 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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  26. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsTeaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories. A lesson plan can be found at this site
  27. Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers - A list of links from eMINTS and The Curators of the University of Missouri
  28. 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. This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data
  29. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsThinking Maps - several different examples of ways to organize information.
  30. A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessonsTips 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.]
  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 This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data



A resource for the teacher to use in planning their lessons site for teachers | A PowerPoint show related to this standard PowerPoint show | An Adobe Acrobat document in .pdf format Acrobat document | A Microsoft Word document to be downloaded Word document | This interactive site would work well on an interactive whiteboard whiteboard resource | This resource includes voice instructions for students sound | A video is available through this link video format | This site is interactive and allows students to play a game or input or collect data interactive lesson | This site includes questions for your students to check their understanding a quiz | A lesson plan can be found at this site lesson plan | This link includes something for the teacher to print to print

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