This printable extends the familiar K-W-L's means of organizing students' prior knowledge, formulating inquiry questions, and recording new learning by adding space for questions for further inquiry.
K-W-L-S Chart
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Venn Diagram, 3 Circles
K - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
Students use this graphic organizer to describe similarities and differences between three objects or ideas.
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I-Chart
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
This printout assists students with generating meaningful questions about a topic and organizing their writing by using a structured guide while researching.
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Exit Slips
K - 12
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| Assessment Tool
This printout provides prompts that help students reflect on and process new information and think critically, and offers teachers the opportunity to differentiate upcoming instruction based on these reflections.
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Oral Presentation Rubric
3 - 12
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| Assessment Tool
This rubric is designed to be used for any oral presentation. Students are scored in three categories—delivery, content, and audience awareness.
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Concept Map
3 - 8
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| Graphic Organizer
This concept map can be used in a variety of ways to show relationships between words and phrases. Students can add arrows as needed and group certain ideas together.
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Readers Theatre Rubric
3 - 12
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| Assessment Tool
This rubric is designed to be used for any Readers Theatre performance. Students are scored both individually in the areas of delivery and cooperation and as a group in the area of active, on-task participation.
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Haiku Starter
2 - 6
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| Writing Starter
This graphic organizer provides students the opportunity to brainstorm words about a given topic, count and record the syllables, and draft a haiku.
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Connection Web
3 - 8
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| Graphic Organizer
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
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Double-Entry Journal
3 - 8
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| Graphic Organizer
This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
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Sequence of Events Chart
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.
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Anticipation Guide
3 - 12
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Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.
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Podcasts: The Nuts and Bolts of Creating Podcasts
3 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
Use this helpful tool to integrate podcasts into your classroom or to help your students create their own podcasts with audio and images.
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Persuasion Map
3 - 12
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| Graphic Organizer
Use this graphic organizer to develop a persuasive stance for an essay, speech, poster, or any type of assignment that incorporates persuasion.
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Acrostic Poem
3 - 5
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| Writing Starter
Acrostic poems are fun to write. Your students will find constructing them easy, too, thanks to this helpful tool, which has endless possibilities for curriculum integration.
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Editing Checklist for Self- and Peer Editing
3 - 5
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This helpful tool will give your students the opportunity to edit their own writing and then observe as their peers edit the same work.
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K-W-L Chart
3 - 8
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| Graphic Organizer
This K-W-L Chart, which tracks what a student knows (K), wants to know (W), and has learned (L) about a topic, can be used before, during, and after research projects.
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T-Chart
3 - 8
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| Graphic Organizer
Use this T-Chart to examine two facets of an object, situation, or event and to make comparisons related to a variety of subjects and content areas.
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PowerPoint Tool Tips
3 - 12
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| Informational Sheet
Combining words, images, graphics, and multimedia is simple with PowerPoint software. Students learn the basics of slide creation.
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Venn Diagram Rubric
K - 12
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| Assessment Tool
The Venn Diagram Rubric can be used to provide students feedback on students' use of a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two things.