The Spider Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a central theme can have several convergent ideas or issues. And further, they can describe some of the details that are associated with each idea.

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The Spider Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Fishbone Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a result can have several convergent causes. And further, they can describe some of the details that are associated with each cause.

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The Fishbone Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Storyboard / Chain of Events Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how events are sequenced in a story. And further, they can describe some of the details that are associated with each event.

Event 1 Detail Detail Detail Event 2 Detail Detail Detail Event 3 Detail Detail Detail Event 4 Detail Detail Detail Event 5 Detail Detail Detail Event 6 Detail Detail Detail

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The Storyboard / Chain of Events Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how events, issues, concepts and particularly categories can be overlapping.

Items from Category 1

Items from Category 1 AND Category 2

Items from Category 2

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The Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Problem and Solutions Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a single problem can have more than one possible solution. Students can brainstorm ideas for possible solutions, and consider what the different outcomes might be.

Possible Solution

Possible Solution

Outcome or Results

Outcome or Results

Central Problem
Who: What:: Why:

Possible Solution

Possible Solution

Outcome or Results

Outcome or Results

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The Problem and Solutions Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Cycle Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a events or issues can be circular or cyclic.

Event 1

Event 4

Event 2

Event 3

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The Cycle Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Cluster Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how items, issues, events, or categories can be clustered, some relating more or less closely to others.

Cluster 1 Item 1 Cluster 1 Item 2 Cluster 1 Item 3 Cluster 2 Item 3

Cluster 2 Item 1

Cluster 2 Item 2

Central Issue or Event

Cluster 3 Item 1 Cluster 3 Item 2 Cluster 3 Item 3 Cluster 4 Item 3

Cluster 4 Item 1

Cluster 4 Item 2

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The Cluster Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The Compare / Contrast Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how issues or themes can have similar attributes or characteristics.

Common or Different Attribute 1

Common or Different Attribute 1

Common or Different Attribute 2

Common or Different Attribute 2

Common or Different Attribute 3

Common or Different Attribute 3

Common or Different Attribute 4

Common or Different Attribute 4

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The Compare / Contrast Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

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The KWL Graphic Organizer

This chart helps children (and teachers) to organize their learning into three categoreies: What do I already know about the subject, what would I like to know about the subject, and what have I learned about the subject. Children fill out the first and second categories before a lesson begins (What do I know, and what would I like to learn?), and they fill out the third category after a lesson has been taught (What have I learned?).

What do I already know about this subject?

What do I want to learn about this subject?

What did I learn about this subject?

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The KWL Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ What do I already know about this subject? What do I want to learn about this subject? Date:_____________ What did I learn about this subject?

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The Five Ws and an H Graphic Organizer

This chart helps children organize their thoughts about Who, What, How, Why, When, and Where?

Who?

What?

How?

Why?

When?

Where?

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The Five Ws and an H Graphic Organizer Name:___________________________ Who? Date:_____________

What?

How?

Why?

When?

Where?

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