This graphic organiser, ‘A Diary Filled with Facts and Opinions’ asks students to read diary entries and differentiate facts and opinions in the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Applauding Affixes’ asks students to identify affixes in words, as well as how they help to shape a word’s meaning.
This graphic organiser, ‘Applauding Affixes for the Classroom’ asks students to apply their knowledge of affixes to the classroom as they search for words that contain given affixes.
This graphic organiser, ‘Brain-Based Facts and Heartfelt Opinions’ helps students distinguish facts from opinions in informational texts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Chain of Words’ helps students to learn the meaning of new vocabulary words by creating definitions that use only two words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Compounding the Problem’ asks students to recognise compound words in sentences, as well as understand that two words can be combined to form a compound word.
This graphic organiser, ‘Compounding the Problem for Read Alouds’ asks students to identify compound words as they are read aloud from a literature book, then break the words into their component parts, find their definitions, and use them in a sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Context Clues Chart’ allows students to guess the meanings of unknown words, then compare and contrast their guesses with the actual definitions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Definition Blocks’ asks students to evaluate and select the correct definition for a word after it is used in a sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Definition Blocks for The Butter Battle Book’ asks students to decide which definition is appropriate for a vocabulary word taken from The Butter Battle Book by Dr Seuss by using context clues from a given sentence.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ecosystem Web’ helps students to connect relationships between organisms in a useful way.
This graphic organiser, ‘I Spy A Word’ asks students to use their dictionary skills to find the definitions of new vocabulary words.
This graphic organiser, ‘I Spy A Word for Squids’ asks students to find unfamiliar vocabulary words as they read Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka and then use a dictionary to define those words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Knock Your Socks Off’ asks students to apply their knowledge of homophones and build vocabulary by understanding that words that sound alike can have different spellings and meanings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Knock Your Socks Off for The King Who Rained’ asks students to apply their knowledge of homophones in the book The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne. They will locate homophones and build vocabulary by defining the homophones they find.
This graphic organiser, ‘Stopping for Synonyms’ asks students to write synonyms for new vocabulary words in order to help them learn the definitions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synonym Shapes’ supports students to create synonyms for vocabulary words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synonym Shapes for Giraffes’ supports students to create synonyms for vocabulary words found in the story ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’
This graphic organiser, ‘The Field Ecosystem Web’ helps students to learn about the ecosystem of a field and then create food webs that so how the animals and plants rely on one another for survival.
This graphic organiser, ‘Vocabulary Diagram’ enables students to break down individual words into multiple parts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Vocabulary Diagram for Anne of Green Gables’ enables students to break down words they recognise into parts, using Greek and Latin roots, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes and associated words to deepen their understanding of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Dominoes’ helps students to increase their vocabulary and comprehension by using context clues to define words.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Dominoes for Mister Seahorse’ helps students to increase their vocabulary and comprehension by using context clues to define words found in Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Parts’ asks students to identify and generate words that are related by word parts.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Parts for A Wrinkle in Time’ allows students to recognise patterns in words through the study of origins and derivations in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Slices’ asks students to use similarities to classify words into categories, then explore the definitions of the words and examine how words relate to each other.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Slices for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs’ asks students to sort vocabulary words from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett into related categories.