This graphic organiser, ‘ Picture This Food’ supports students in editing and revising their writing, focusing on the use of illustrations to enhance their descriptive drafts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Precision Decision T-chart’ helps students to see patterns and relationships among words and phrases used in a book and how they connect to the overall meaning.
This graphic organiser, ‘Precision Decision T-chart for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ asks students to use word-resource texts to find more precise adjectives for vague descriptive words or phrases while reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
This graphic organiser, ‘Procedures’ supports the teaching of writing and science experiments by giving students a template for recording the steps in a procedure.
This graphic organiser, ‘Protagonist and Antagonist Diagram’ asks students to think about similarities and differences in characters from a text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Protagonist and Antagonist Diagram for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ asks students to examine the similarities and differences in the protagonist and antagonist in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling.
This graphic organiser, ‘Puzzle Pieces for Shel Silverstein’ asks students to identify compound words in the poem Wild Strawberries from Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic.
This graphic organiser, ‘Questioning the Text’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to ask questions and search for answers as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Questioning the Text’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to ask questions and search for answers as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Questioning the Text’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to ask questions and search for answers as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Random Word Draw’ helps students to visually piece together otherwise unrelated information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Random Word Draw for Olive’s Ocean’ helps students understand how mood and meaning are created through an author’s word choices in Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Aloud’ helps students to organise their thoughts before performing as a class, concentrating on correct expression and changes in voice.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reading Together’ helps students to build fluency by performing a choral reading as a group.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles’ promotes application of knowledge as students reflect on three of the elements of literature and connect them with their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reflecting Triangles for Alexander’ asks students to respond to how Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst relates to something in their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Relationship Tree’ asks students to identify the main theme and central ideas of a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Relationship Tree for Click, Clack, Moo’ asks students to identify the main theme and central ideas in the story Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.
This graphic organiser, ‘Reports’ supports the teaching of comprehension and writing by giving students a template for analysing or planning to write a report.
This graphic organiser, ‘Responding to Texts’ supports the teaching of reading by giving students a template for recording problems, reasons and responses as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Responding to Texts’ supports the teaching of reading by giving students a template for recording their thoughts and responses as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rhyme Time for This Is the House That Jack Built’ asks students to identify rhyming words in the book This Is the House That Jack Built by Simms Taback.
This graphic organiser, ‘Right On Time’ provides students with the opportunity to record a sequence of events in chronological order.
This graphic organiser, ‘Rings Theme’ asks students identify themes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then select one theme to write about in detail.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sail Away’ allows students to draw pictures to summarise myths and legends identifying what it teaches.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sailing Away to the Sun’ allows students to explain the legend Ra the Sun God.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sequence of Events’ provides students with a scaffold to logically order parts of a story. Understanding the need to sequence events for accurate comprehension can be a challenging concept for some students. This resources segments the story into sections with prompts such as, first, then and finally so that students can recognise …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Sequencing Train’ provides a structure with which students can focus on the beginning, middle and ending of a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Sequencing Train for The Mitten’ provides a structure with which students can focus on the beginning, middle and ending of The Mitten by Jan Brett.
This graphic organiser, ‘Solutions for the Cows’ allows students to create solutions for various conflicts and evaluate the solutions to determine the best ones.
This graphic organiser, ‘Specialised Vocabulary’ supports the teaching of vocabulary and comprehension by asking students to identify text clues and synonyms as they explore specialised vocabulary.
This graphic organiser, ‘Story Circle’ consists of three circles within each other and is a great resource to model the complex elements of the narrative structure. Within the two inside circles students are prompted to summarise the title, characters, setting, conflict and solution. Within the outside circle students are given the opportunity to explore the …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Story Map’ is a great resource to model the structure of a narrative. Students are prompted to identify the title and author, the main and supporting characters and the setting, problem and solution. This blank scaffold can be used during a whole class pre-writing brainstorm or during post-reading comprehension activities.
This graphic organiser, ‘Story Mapping’ supports students to identify different elements of a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Story Problem Sorting Maps’ asks students to write and sort information to show relevant and irrelevant information in story problems.
This graphic organiser, ‘Story Structure’ provides students with a scaffold to logically order parts of a story. Understanding the need to sequence events for accurate comprehension can be a challenging concept for some students. This resources segments the story into plot sections with prompts of, beginning, middle and end so that students can recognise the …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Storyboard’ combines skills in brainstorming and mind mapping to visually represent the relationship between sequential events. It can be used as a pre-writing task, to logically organise ideas, or a post-reading comprehension activity.
This graphic organiser, ‘Storyboard’ encourages students to visually represent the relationship between sequential events using four illustrations. This resource is particularly useful when working with younger or lower ability levels and can be a great tool when exploring a sequence of events with students learning English as their second language. It can be used as …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Synthesising Information’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to combine facts from words and diagrams as they read a text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synthesising Information’ supports the teaching of comprehension and writing across the curriculum by prompting students to consider and respond to facts as they read and write.
This graphic organiser, ‘T-Chart’ provides students with a simple format to help make comparisons between ideas and concepts. This T-chart will encourage the use of higher-order, critical thinking when analysing two separate viewpoints. For example, the t-chart is valuable when examining positives and negatives, strengths and weaknesses or even the differences between topics. It is …More
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One’ allows students to make predictions, explain the meaning of a text and summarise as they read aloud.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One’ supports students in developing their writing skills by identifying introductory words and clauses in expository writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One for the Pigeon’ asks students to participate in a think-aloud using the story, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! to demonstrate their comprehension of the texts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tell It Another Way’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording a different point of view as they read or plan for writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tell Me a Family Story’ supports students in identifying setting, characters and problems in their peers family picture books.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tell Me a Story’ supports students in identifying setting, characters and problems in stories.
This graphic organiser, ‘5 Ws and How’ provides a structured diagram that helps students identify who, what, when, where, why and how of a situation or event. It is a great visual tool that can be used as either a pre-writing task to logically brainstorm ideas or a post-reading, comprehension activity.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Animal Information Station’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on sentence and paragraph structure as they write an informational piece about animals.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Big Scoop’ allows students to research and record information found in a specific text.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Contraction Train for Dialogue’ asks students to write contractions for commonly combined words, as they appear in the dialogue of various literature books.