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Free high school informational text graphic organizers
Non-Fiction Text Graphic Organizer for Main Idea Key Details and Summarizing
Pair this graphic organizer with any non-fiction text to help your students identify main idea and key details, as well as summarize what they have read. A description of each of these elements is included. Enjoy!Check out this BUNDLE of VISUAL SUPPORTS for speech therapy!••• Blog ••• Instagram ••• Pinterest ••• Facebook •••
Grades:
4th - 9th
Free KWL Chart Graphic Organizer Handout!
K-W-L charts are an easy to use instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. Students begin by brainstorming everything they Know about a topic. This information is recorded in the K column of a K-W-L chart. Students then generate a list of questions about what they Want to Know about the topic. These questions are listed in the W column of the chart. During or after reading, students answer the questions that are in the W column. This new information that they h
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3rd - 10th
FREE DNA Text Reading Watson Crick DNA Article
This free DNA Informational Text reading is based on Watson and Crick's famous one-page article published in 1953 in Nature magazine, announcing their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. It comes with graphic organizers to help your students read and understand this classic scientific paper. Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. Both Google Slides and Google Forms versions are included.This is a fantastic way to implement t
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9th - 12th
Also included in: DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis Bundle
Brainstorming Web
This brainstorming web can be used for any grade! It allows for students to collect their thoughts and organize it for creative and opinion writing, research-based essays, and even book study's!
This is a PDF that includes:
✔ A blank brainstorming web template
✔ An explanation on how to fill out the brainstorming web and multiple ways of using it.
✔ 3 examples of using a brainstorming web (informational text, key point with examples, and organizing a story).
This PDF can be projected on a SMA
Grades:
1st - 12th, Higher Education
Rhetorical Analysis SOAPStone Organizer and Rhetorical Device Chart Freebie
Help your students rhetorically analyze any text with this SOAPStone organizer and rhetorical device student handout! This organizer helps ease students into rhetorical analysis, and once students understand how to complete the chart, it works great as a last-minute lesson plan idea for a sub that your students can use with any speech.Looking for resources for the ENTIRE year?Secondary English Curriculum: Common Core - Grades 7-10Ultimate Writing Bundle for Secondary EnglishHelpful Tools and Res
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Bundle for Secondary ELA
The Super Football Game Commercial Analysis (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)
Bring the Super Bowl excitement into your classroom for FREE and with a purpose! The Super Bowl is the perfect opportunity to integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally, AND make a real-world connection with propaganda, logical fallacies, rhetorical devices, and persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos). Student Experience: Students review the persuasive appeals. Then, they will watch a commercial from past Supe
Grades:
8th - 12th
Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video Notes
Free Graphic Organizers - CNN10, Ted Talks, SOAPSTONE, & Video NotesHello and welcome to No Prep English! I am so excited you decided to stop by. Included in this freebie product bundle you will find 8 pages of FREE graphic organizers designed to engage students and support learning. These handouts also have the added benefit of holding students accountable for traditionally passive work (viewing videos).PRODUCT LIST:SOAPStone Handout - A graphic organizer handout to scaffold the analysis of
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: The Whole Store - Growing Mega Bundle
Inference Murder Mystery
This is a murder mystery slideshow that takes an activity I usually do physically and puts it in a digital format. This is usually used after a student has already learned about inferences, and is then trying to make their own inferences about who killed the man, why he was killed, and how. There are three different areas the students need to explore, including the crime scene, with close up shots on the scene, interviews with the suspects (including audio versions to listen to), and items fou
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7th - 9th
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Podcast Worksheets, Listening Guide for True Crime Series, Digital/Printable
This student casebook is designed to be a set of worksheets your students can use during their listening experience of any popular true crime podcast series of your choice. The no-prep, printable pages provided are designed to work as a whole while students “investigate” along with the podcast’s narrator; however, you could just pull out a few at a time. Plus, this casebook also comes in e-worksheet format, which means it's ready-to-complete in Google! They'll be ready in just a moment's noti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Jigsaw Graphic Organizer
Do you love to Jigsaw your students for large chunks of text but struggle with the lack of structure? Check out this graphic organizer designed to guide students through a discussion with the expert and home groups, focusing on central ideas and the connections between the ideas.
Grades:
5th - 12th
R.A.C.E. Writing Strategy - Infographic poster, lesson, & graphic organizer
This product includes:- 2 R.A.C.E. paragraph infographics in rich color for creating posters in your classroom. I’ve also included an optimized black and white version so that the details are not lost should you choose to print in black and white.- A color-coded explanation page of the R.A.C.E. acronym and an example of it in action.- A student practice page. You can use and reuse this with any text.The R.A.C.E. format for a paragraph is an excellent method for teaching students to answer a writ
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
A Million Miles Away movie guide in English and Espanol
This is a video guide in Word in English and Spanish about A Million Miles Away movie and Hispanic astronaut Jose Hernandez. It was designed for high school grade ELS, ELL students. It has sentence prompts and is numbered. It has vocabulary at the beginning to preview for learners.
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5th - 12th
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CLOSE Read Placemat
The CLOSE Read Strategy (11 X 17 placemat) is a metacognitive instructional procedure that uses the word close as an acronym and provides teachers and students with a brain friendly step by step guide to conducting a close read of complex text. The role of vocabulary and the strategies for determining the meanings of unknown words are foundational to the skill of conducting a close read and a priority in the Common Core State Standards for literacy. If students are expected to read at high lev
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3rd - 12th
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Informative Writing Rubric - Explanatory Self Editing Template 6th-12th FREEBIE
Are you looking for an easy way to grade your students’ essays? Look no further! This rubric and self assessment was created to scaffold the requirements as students develop their writing skills. This free basic rubric is used first, then followed by the rest of the rubrics, Informational Writing Rubrics, Self Editing Forms, & Graphic Organizers Template, as the class progresses in their writing skills. Teachers will be able to easily grade essays using these reusable quality rubrics.If you
Grades:
6th - 12th
DIGITAL Graphic Organizer for Research/Inquiry Project
These templates will help your students organize information for research/inquiry project and keep track of multiple sources. Students have used these for research essays, TED Talk presentations, Inquiry projects, podcasts, etc. This is a digital resource and ready to assign via Google Classroom. Includes marginal notes for students with reminders and some instructions, but students may require additional guidance depending on age group. I have used this with 4th and 5th graders but can be used
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4th - 12th
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Current Event Article Reflection
I'm a stickler for the timeless current event activity. This is a comprehensive assessment of a student's nonfiction skills including: text features, accessing prior knowledge, summarizing, identifying the 5Ws and an H (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How), main idea and details, sequencing, and facts and opinions. Students can adequately convey their understanding of informational text, and share their reflections.
At the end each article, students must reflect on how this news impacts those
Grades:
5th - 12th
Wikipedia Templates for Non-Fiction Writing Projects
A fun, standards-based activity way for students to write informative articles about a variety of topics.
Beginning writers often struggle with writing non-fiction, informative pieces that are still interesting. These templates give students a chance to practice those writing skills through a final product that is formatted like a real Wikipedia article, giving a feel of authenticity to the writing assignment.
INCLUDED IN THIS DOWNLOAD:
- Two different Wikipedia article templates - one perf
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Cornell Note Taking Demo Page and Template
Want to introduce your students to the excellent academic tool that is Cornell Note Taking?
Use my demo sheet and template to explain to students the value of breaking down their notes and summarizing to get the most out of the information that is presented to them in class!
All graphics and fonts are original content.
Please rate honestly and comment with any questions!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Close Reading Current Events Organizer
Close Reading Current Events Organizer by Miss Middle School Teacher~ I use this in my middle school science classes to teach disciplinary literacy skills and close reading of expository text. This same form could be adapted to social studies or math articles as well. This includes the student organizer and a brief lesson plan explaining how I teach with it/use it. I teach annotations of articles along with this as well. It is a great way to help students understand an author's central idea, a f
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6th - 10th
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Main Idea and Detail Jigsaw Graphic Organizer
Perfect for working with informational texts that have several headings, this two-sided graphic organizer and note catcher can be used in several ways.
1. Each student is assigned one section of the text. They must take notes on the main idea of their section with four supporting details. Then, each student can share their information orally in a whole group or small group setting. The other students must take notes on four other students' information.
2. The front side can be done in groups o
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Rhetorical Analysis Graphic Organizers for Any Nonfiction Text
Writing a rhetorical analysis essay and analyzing nonfiction texts just got easier with these print and digital graphic organizers for rhetorical analysis. When reading any nonfiction text, use these organizers to help students process and write a focused analysis précis.★ Précis★ SOAPS (Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker)★ Rhetorical appeals (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)*************************************************Here’s what you’ll receive in this resource:★ Rhetorical analysis graphic
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Rhetorical Analysis Argumentation & Persuasive Writing Rhetoric BUNDLE
Weather and Climate #1 Science CER Reading/Writing Prompt
As current science teaching practices and ELA teaching practices continue to evolve, teachers are encouraged to incorporate more nonfiction text into classroom practice. This short nonfiction text is based on current news. This CER document provides a vehicle for nonfiction text reading analyzed through the lens of Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning. We want our students reading more science and constructing arguments in a scientific manner. This text can be used as a bell ringer, included in a sub
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-ESS2-5
Current Events Science Article Assignment
This assignment can be used during any science unit in an effort to link current events information to the science classroom. Physical, Earth, and Life Sciences can be used and students can find the relevance in what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to their real-world. This template also works great as a differentiation tool as each student can have a different article based on their reading and comprehension level and can be adapted for multiple subject areas. If you have a s
Grades:
6th - 10th, Staff
Financial Literacy | Writing Prompt | Personal Finance | Opinon Writing
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers with this FREEBIE! Persuasive language is everywhere! Commercials, social media, movie ads and political speeches. Teaching persuasive writing and language is important and takes time and practice. Here’s an activity that supports persuasive writing by giving students a topic they can relate to, Financial Intelligence!What do your students already know about Financial Intelligence?If you’d like to give them a head start, check out this fun
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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