21 Common Core Literary and Informational Graphic Organizers w/Standards!!

This resource includes 21 Common Core Literary and Informational Graphic Organizers aligned to priority reading informational and literary standards for grades 6-8 – I am including a file of 20 PDF files that I created to be aligned specifically to many of the informational and literary standards and speaking and listening standards in the Common Core State Standards. These tools are applicable nationwide and include critical questions designed to help students analyze and evaluate the text that they will read in your classroom. The graphic organizers include challenging level 2 and 3 questions that will require students to go beyond recalling facts from a selected text and will cause them to deconstruct the text and respond critically to what they have read. Some of the most commonly addressed standards by the graphic organizers in the set include:

1. Rhetoric and argumentative appeals – RI6
2. Argument and supporting evidence – RI6
3. Theme – RL2
4. Main Ideas and Supporting Details – RI2
5. Tone – RI4, RL4
6. Characterization (protagonist and antagonist) – RL3
7. Development of story structure – RL5
8. Making predictions – RL5
9. Author’s Point of View and Purpose – RI6
10. Figurative language and nuances in meaning – RL4, RI4, L5
11. Vocabulary words in context and morphology. – L4, L5
12. Writing Objective Summaries – RL2, RI2
13. Claims and Their Development – RI5
14. Fallacious Reasoning and Arguments – RI8, RI2
15. Allusions – RL4, RI4
16. Allegories – RL4
17. Static and Dynamic Characters – RL3
18. Inferences and Textual Support – RI1, RL1
19. Literary Text Close Reading Graphic Organizer – RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4, RL5
20. Symbolism – RL4
21. Characteristics of a Tragic Hero – RL1, RL3

These graphic organizers can be printed and will help your students analyze complex literary and informational texts in your classroom.


21 Common Core Literary and Informational Graphic Organizers w/Standards!! by Dr. Joel Boyce is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.