The Spider Graphic Organizer

This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a central theme can
have several convergent ideas or issues. And further, they can describe some of the
details that are associated with each idea.

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Concept, Main Idea,

or Theme

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The Spider Graphic Organizer

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The Fishbone Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a result can have
several convergent causes. And further, they can describe some of the details that are
associated with each cause.

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The Fishbone Graphic Organizer

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The Storyboard / Chain of Events Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how events are
sequenced in a story. And further, they can describe some of the details that are
associated with each event.

Event 1
Detail
Detail
Detail
Event 2
Detail
Detail
Detail
Event 3
Detail
Detail
Detail
Event 4
Detail
Detail
Detail
Event 5
Detail
Detail
Detail
Event 6
Detail
Detail
Detail

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The Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how events, issues,
concepts and particularly categories can be overlapping.

Items from
Items from Category 1 Items from
Category 1 AND Category 2
Category 2

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The Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer

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The Problem and Solutions Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a single problem can
have more than one possible solution. Students can brainstorm ideas for possible
solutions, and consider what the different outcomes might be.

Possible Solution Possible Solution

Outcome or Results Outcome or Results

Central Problem
Who:
What::
Why:

Possible Solution Possible Solution

Outcome or Results Outcome or Results

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The Problem and Solutions Graphic Organizer

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The Cycle Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how a events or issues
can be circular or cyclic.

Event 1

Event 4 Event 2

Event 3

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The Cluster Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how items, issues, events,
or categories can be clustered, some relating more or less closely to others.

Cluster 1 Cluster 2
Item 1 Item 1

Cluster 1 Cluster 2
Item 2 Item 3

Cluster 1 Cluster 2
Item 3 Item 2

Central Issue
or
Event

Cluster 3 Cluster 4
Item 1 Item 1
Cluster 3 Cluster 4
Item 2 Item 3

Cluster 3 Cluster 4
Item 3 Item 2

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The Compare / Contrast Graphic Organizer
This organizer can be used for helping students understand how issues or themes can
have similar attributes or characteristics.

Common or Different Common or Different

Attribute 1 Attribute 1

Common or Different Common or Different

Attribute 2 Attribute 2

Common or Different Common or Different

Attribute 3 Attribute 3

Common or Different Common or Different

Attribute 4 Attribute 4

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The Compare / Contrast Graphic Organizer

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The KWL Graphic Organizer
This chart helps children (and teachers) to organize their learning into three
categoreies: What do I already know about the subject, what would I like to know about
the subject, and what have I learned about the subject.

Children fill out the first and second categories before a lesson begins (What do I
know, and what would I like to learn?), and they fill out the third category after a lesson
has been taught (What have I learned?).
What do I already What do I want to
What did I learn
know about this learn about this
about this subject?
subject? subject?

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The KWL Graphic Organizer

Name:___________________________ Date:_____________

What do I already What do I want to

What did I learn
know about this learn about this
about this subject?
subject? subject?

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The Five Ws and an H Graphic Organizer
This chart helps children organize their thoughts about Who, What, How, Why, When,
and Where?

Who?

What?

How?

Why?

When?

Where?

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The Five Ws and an H Graphic Organizer

Name:___________________________ Date:_____________
Who?

What?

How?

Why?

When?

Where?

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