Graphic Organizers for Reading Skills in Fiction and Nonfiction Print & Digital

Description

Imagine having a graphic organizer for EVERY fiction and nonfiction standard! These 120 graphic organizers in print and digital will make your reading lessons and literacy centers so much more stress-free!

The graphic organizers cover so many reading skills and can be paired with any fiction or nonfiction text to make an easy and effective reading activity! Plus, they make it easy to differentiate. Students can read books at their own levels while using the same targeted graphic organizer!

How can you use them?

• Reading Workshop or Guided Reading
• Independent work or partner work
• Strategy groups, small group work, and reading conferences
• Student reference (glue them into reading journals or reader’s notebooks)
• Review and intervention
• Remediation for older students – NO “cutesy” clip art included

Please note: While these graphic organizers are aligned to Common Core standards, the graphic organizers themselves have no notations and will work well with a number of other standards.

This resource includes:

60 Fiction Graphic Organizers (in 3 formats)

60 Nonfiction Graphic Organizers (in 3 formats)

Teacher Notes:

1. LINKS
2. How to Use This Resource
3. List of All Fiction and Nonfiction Graphic Organizers and their Common Core Standards

The Reading Skills Graphic Organizers come in three formats to give you greater flexibility.

• Print – Full Page (as worksheets or for binders/spiral-bound reading journals)
• Print – Half-Page (to glue into composition sized reader’s notebooks)
• Digital – Full Page (Google Slides or PPT)

Here are the reading skills covered:

Fiction (30 Graphic Organizers) –

Asking and Answering Questions (2)

Making Inferences As You Read (2)

Quoting Evidence From the Text

Retelling a Story (2)

The Central Message (3)

Write a Summary

Theme and Summary (3)

The Theme (3)

Describing Characters – FAST (2)

Describe the Story Elements (2)

Describe the Characters in Depth

Describe the Setting in Depth

Describe the Plot in Depth

Compare and Contrast Characters

Compare and Contrast Settings

Compare and Contrast Events

Compare and Contrast

Literal and Nonliteral Word Meanings (2)

Context Clues (3)

Context Clues (Words/Phrases in Mythology)

Using Context Clues with Figurative Language

Parts of Stories

Parts of Dramas

Parts of Poems

Elements of Poetry

Elements of Drama

Elements of Prose

Point of View (Perspective) (2)

Point of View: Who is Telling the Story? (first person and third person)

Point of View (1st, 2nd, and 3rd person – 3 with three variations) (2)

How Do Illustrations Add to the Text? (2)

Connections Between the Text and a Presentation of the Text (2)

Visual and Multimedia Elements With Text (2)

Compare and Contrast Books (Settings, Plot, Theme) (2)

Compare and Contrast Books

Compare and Contrast Books Themes and Plots (4)

Compare and Contrast Books in the Same Genre

Nonfiction (30 Graphic Organizers) –

Ask and Answer Questions Using the Text (2) RI 3.1

Refer to the Text to Support Your Answers

Making Inferences as You Read

Quote Accurately From the Text (2)

Main Idea and Key Details (3)

Two or More Main Ideas with Key Details

Two or More Main Ideas, Key Details, and a Summary

Writing a Nonfiction Summary (2)

Nonfiction Sequencing (2)

Cause and Effect (4)

Relationships Between Individuals. Events, Ideas, or Concepts

One Cause, Two or More Effects (3)

Two or More Causes and One Effect (2)

Context Clues (6)

Text Features (6)

Informational Text Structures (3)

Comparing Informational Text Structures

Point of View: Nonfiction – Perspective (3)

Point of View – firsthand and secondhand account (3)

Point of View for the Same Event or Topic (2)

Illustrations Increase Understanding

Visual, Oral, and Multimedia Information Adds to Nonfiction Text

Using Multiple Sources to Find Information Text

Make Logical Connections to Find Text Evidence

Finding Proof: Reasons and Evidence

Reasons and Evidence to Support Particular Points

Text Evidence for Nonfiction: Connecting Points with Proof

Compare Two Nonfiction Texts

Combine Information From Two Texts (2)

Integrate Information from Several Texts (2)

Want to SAVE MORE and GET MORE??? You can grab the bundle with these anchor charts plus a set of 120 graphic organizers to take you through the entire year!

Click here to take a look at the Anchor Charts and Graphic Organizers Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Skills Bundle!

SAVE THE MOST and GET THE MOST with the Reading Workshop: The Complete Kit! This resource is included, plus yearlong framework materials like anchor charts, question stems, reading conference forms, reader’s notebook materials, and more! It also includes an entire month of mini-lessons about routines and expectations and reading comprehension strategies to launch your Reading Workshop successfully!

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• You’ll have a graphic organizer for EVERY fiction and nonfiction reading standard!

• The resource includes three formats to give busy teachers more flexibility.

• They are easy to use and are NO PREP!

• You can use each graphic organizer multiple times – simply change out the text.

• The graphic organizers are intentionally simple with no “cutesy” clip art images, so they can be used with older students for review or intervention.

• There are so many ways to use this resource, to reinforce guided reading and reader’s workshop lessons, for centers, assessments, review, intervention, and more!!!

Need more reading resources? I love using these reading centers. They’re standards-aligned and lots of fun!

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This resource may only be placed on a password-protected website for your students, like Google Classroom™. It may not be placed anywhere else on the internet, on a class or school website visible to the public, or on a district server. Please email me if you have any questions: [email protected].

©The Teacher Next Door™

Purchasing this product grants permission for use by one teacher in his or her own classroom or for one homeschool parent teaching his/her child. If you would like to share with others, please purchase additional licenses.

This resource may only be placed on a password-protected website for your students, like Google Classroom™. It may not be placed anywhere else on the internet, on a class or school website visible to the public, or on a district server. Please email me if you have any questions: [email protected].