Graphic Organizers
Listed below are a variety of graphic organizers that can be used with
students in accelerating, acquiring or extending/refining learning. These
tools should be used to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize
complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions with texts. They should not
be used simply as worksheets or activities for their own sake.
Graphic Organizers for Acceleration, Acquisition and Vocabulary Lessons
Venn Diagram
KWL
Story Map 2
Frayer
Cycle Graph
KWL Plus
Story Pyramid
Word Map
Fishbone
Story Worm
Meeting New
Vocabulary
Describing an
Event
Descriptive
Organizer
Story Map 1
5 W and How
Sequence Chain
Comparison Matrix
Filmstrip
The Important
Thing
Decision Making
Frame
Word Bank
Spider Map
T-Chart
3-2-1
Just the Facts
Beginning, Middle,
End
Descriptive
Paragraph
Chronological
Narrative
This Caused...
Frame
SQ3R
Cause and Effect
Attribute Web
Question/Prediction
Using All My
Senses
Sketch to Stretch
Connections
Inferencing
Questioning
Picture in My Head
Synthesizing
Determining
Importance
Point of View
Compare/Contrast
ABC Brainstorming
Triangle
Graphic Organizers for Extending and Refining Thinking Skills
Abstracting
Analyzing
Perspectives
Comparing and
Contrasting
Inductive
Reasoning
Classifying and
Categorizing
Deductive
Reasoning
Constructing
Support
Error Analysis
Can't find an organizer to meet your needs? Check out these web sites for
even more!
Library of Graphic Organizers
Organizers
Enchanted Learning Graphic
EdHelper Graphic Organizers
More Graphic Organizers
Education Place
Graphic Organizers to Print
Houghton Mifflin Eduplace
Portal
Scholastic: Graphic Organizers
The Write Site
Education Oasis
Region 15 Graphic Organizers (English and Spanish versions)
*Material adapted from a variety of sources including Dr. Max Thompson's Learning
Focused Strategies