Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection. SPI 0701.3.12

Links verified on 2/15/2016

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. Cool Tools for Schools - large list of links to graphic organizers
4. Digital Toolbox - graphic organizer links for science and math
5. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
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
7. 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
8. Graphic Organizer Software - create KWL charts, story boards and other graphic organizers
9. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
10. Graphic Organizer Templates from ThinkPort - index of organizers with links to download one of three formats; html, pdf, and MS Word
11. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
12. Graphic Organizers - index of links prepared by Humble TX ISD
13. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
14. 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.
15. Idea Graphic Chart - worksheet - Fill in the supporting sentences that best fits the main idea.
16. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
17. Interactive Graphic Organizers - index of Read Write Think graphic organizers compiled by Tangipahoa Parish School System in Louisiana
18. Interactive Graphic Organizers for Kids - descriptions of organizers from various sites with links to the site
19. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
20. Making an Outline - interactive outline maker
21. Outline - information on how to map out an outline.
22. 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.
23. 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
24. Teaching about Conflict in Literature - Lesson Plan - uses graphic organizer to plot out stories.
25. Technology4Kids - graphic organizers
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. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn [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.]
28. 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