This graphic organiser, ‘Analysing Sentences’ supports the teaching of reading by prompting students to explore a range of sentence structures.
This graphic organiser, ‘Breaking Down Stereotypes’ helps students to think about the consequences of an individual’s behaviour on society.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Causal Chain,’ helps students understand the relationship between the cause and the following effects. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of cause and effect through the use of a visual representation of the actions or events.
This graphic organiser, ‘Domino Effect’ helps students think about the consequences and impact of certain events from history.
This graphic organiser, ‘Evaluating Gender Bias’ asks students to evaluate gender stereotypes and record their findings.
This graphic organiser, ‘Fishing for Solutions’ allows students to create solutions for various conflicts and to decide which solutions are the best.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Keep the Grownups Out of It’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about student mediation in schools.
This graphic organiser, ‘Living or Dead Opinion Organiser’ asks students to read the story Is He Living or Dead and decide whether Millet makes the right decisions, then write paragraphs to support their opinions.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Chain of Events,’ helps students see a sequence of events. It is aimed at teaching students how to outline the sequence of a nonfiction text or to tell a progression of ideas.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘One Problem/Many Choices and Decision Tree,’ helps students illustrate possible outcomes to various situations. It is aimed at giving structure to the decision making process and includes examples and templates that can be reproduced for class use.
This graphic organiser, ‘Opinion Organiser’ helps students organise their thoughts and opinions regarding a character’s decisions in a story.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Signal Words,’ teaches students that signal words and cue words are used to point out that valuable information is being presented. It is aimed at helping students understand the importance of signal words by showing them texts that have numerous examples of signal or cue words.
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, ‘The Domino Effect of 9/11’ asks students to think about the events of 11th September 2001 and how the event has impacted life since.
This graphic organiser, ‘Tracking Dialogue’ supports the teaching of reading and writing by giving students a template for recording the way dialogue works as they read or plan for writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Why Do They Do It?’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to identify authors’ purposes as they read.