Ela graphic organizers middle school

Five benefits to using doodle wheels as graphic organizers for math and ELA notes in upper elementary and middle school classes.

by Stacey Lloyd Ever set students a task - reading or writing - and then observed as some just sit there, staring at the page, their eyes glazed over? Or they immediately become distracted, or even worse: disruptive? These reactions aren’t because students are unwilling, lazy, or defiant: more often than not, it is because they don’t know how to begin. They don’t know where to start. And this is why I am a huge fan of the powerful graphic organizer. WHAT ARE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, & WHY SHOULD…

This blog post contains an affiliate link for your convenience. I have many students on my caseload this year working on vocabulary. I recently purchased Linguisystems' Word Feast Middle School (I plan to do a blog post on why I love it, so if you're curious stay tuned!), and I needed a way to organize all those new vocabulary words my students are learning! I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I decided to create my own. My graphic organizer includes space for the vocabulary word…

Get an outline for teaching all the reading and writing standards in your Middle School ELA class.

Looking for free reading graphic organizers that will help your students think critically and deeply as they read, while meeting the common core reading standards? Grab this free set of reading graphic organizers that include organizers to address: comparing and contrasting, determining the theme, asking questions, summarizing fiction, finding the main idea, and understanding cause and effect. Click to grab this set for free.

Free printable Graphic organizers and graphic organizer templates for kids. Teachers can use our PDF graphic organizing writing template to help students to compare and contrast, outline cause and effect, and create story maps. Our simple graphic organizer printables will help your students organize their writing into beginning-middle-end story sequences, and provide a framework for building opinion, narrative, or informational writing.

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These informational text graphic organizers will meet nonfiction reading standards for 4th, 5th and 6th grades. Free from The Curriculum Corner.

Graphic Organizers are a great tool in the classroom, but all too often these three mistakes get in the way. (Writing organizers included!)

Well, today was the first official day back to school after the longest winter break ever (seriously, 19 days!) with a snow day at the very beginning and then two in a row tacked on at the end. If you are a mid-westerner like myself, you were definitely in the same boat with these frigid wind-chills and mounds of snow. In fact, I had to give my little Honda a pep talk this morning to get through some of those side streets that were still in desperate need of some plowing. "C'mon Hondie, you…