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This simple story map graphic organizer helps students to succinctly organize their thinking about the different parts of stories. It may be used by students during read-alouds, guided reading and/or independent reading.

This KWL graphic organizer (What I know, what I want to know and what I learned) will help your students create an overview of their inquiry and learning about a topic. The graphic prompts will help students identify and organize information appropriate for each section of the chart.

This main idea graphic organizer allows students to branch their thinking out from a main idea/topic and develop it in greater detail and depth. The graphics provide students with visual prompts related to how they can layer their topic and more vividly explain it. I would recommend modelling how to use the organizer first with the whole class or in smaller guided groups before having students use it independently.

This organizer is ideal for helping your students organizing their initial thinking and understanding of topics. It provides students with graphic prompts and an organized workspace. While students work to conduct research, brainstorm ideas for writing or share their ideas about new learnings this resource will help them to begin on the right path and structure their work.

This graphic organizer starter pack contains a variety of different graphic organizers that are ideal for helping students organize key ideas and information related to class learnings. These organizers have successfully been used to scaffold student success in Language, Media, Science and Social Studies. This starter pack includes the following graphic organizers: *APE - Answer,Prove, Explain *Message - Ideal for reading, viewing and inquiry activities. *Brainstorm - Great for starting a new topic or investigation. *Main Idea - Perfect for developing a topic or analyzing media or readings. *Inference/Evidence - Supports inferring while reading, experimenting or during inquiry. *Venn - Great for comparing and contrasting. *KWL - Something students can revisit throughout a unit. *Story Map - Perfect for jotting-down key information about stories to help map student understanding