Graphic organizers for writing

This past week, we started a new personal narrative writing unit all about my many memorable firsts. I began this unit with a hook to engage student interest--we talked about roller coasters. Who doesn't have a love-hate relationship with a good ol' roller coaster? Especially in a room of second graders, the feelings are unanimous. "Roller coasters are SO MUCH FUN!" We talked about what it was like to go on a roller coaster for the very first time--how that wait in line feels like forever…

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.

How do you get students to take the wonderful narratives they come up with and get them down on paper? Here are the steps to teaching narrative writing in the primary classroom.

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Free Printable Graphic Organizers for Opinion Writing by Genia Connell

These prewriting graphic organizers are perfect for the prewriting stage of the writing process for all types of writing. Using graphic organizers as supports during writer’s workshop allows your students to become more independent during prewriting. Different options are included for many of the writing types to allow you to switch up your students’ prewriting guides throughout the year or differentiate to meet the needs of all your growing writers. These pre-writing organizers were created…

I love anchor charts and use them daily. They are such a great tool in my classroom, for my students, as well as for myself. Read this blog post for ideas on how to create

I created Writing Graphic Organizers for the Common Core Standards for Grades 3-5 . I know they are great. The only problem is that my stu...

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