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  • (-) Organizing & Summarizing

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  • Comprehension (3)
  • critical thinking (3)
  • inquiry / research (3)
  • literary analysis (6)
  • multimodal literacy (1)
  • phonological awareness (1)
  • reading genres (2)
  • Spelling (1)
  • text structure / story structure (6)
  • Vocabulary (2)
  • writing genres (8)
  • writing process (2)

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Literary Graffiti
Grades
9 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Literary Graffiti
Literary Graffiti, a high school version of the Doodle Splash student interactive, also aims to teach students to visualize what they are reading to help them develop as readers.
Doodle Splash
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Doodle Splash

Doodle Splash combines the process of drawing with analytical thinking by pairing online drawing with writing prompts that encourage students to make connections between their visual designs and the text.

Venn Diagram
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Venn Diagram

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

Cube Creator
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Cube Creator

The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.

Resume Generator
Grades
9 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Resume Generator

This tool guides students through the creation of a resume that can be saved and edited. Written and audio tips provide extra support.

Crossword Puzzles
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Crossword Puzzles
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
Compare & Contrast Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Compare & Contrast Map
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
Essay Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Essay Map

The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

Bio Cube
Grades
3 - 12
|
Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Bio Cube

Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

Trading Card Creator
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Trading Card Creator

This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.

Alphabet Organizer
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
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Organizing & Summarizing
Alphabet Organizer
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
Persuasion Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Persuasion Map

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Timeline
Grades
K - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Timeline

Students generate descriptive timelines and can include images in the description.

Grades
3 - 12
|
Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool

The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.

Grades
K - 12
|
Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Story Map

The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

ReadWriteThink Notetaker
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
ReadWriteThink Notetaker

Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.

Plot Diagram
Grades
1 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Plot Diagram

The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.

Graphic Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Graphic Map

The Graphic Map assists teachers and students in reading and writing activities by charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as events during a day or chapters in a book.

Comparison and Contrast Guide
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Comparison and Contrast Guide
The Comparison and Contrast Guide outlines the characteristics of the genre and provides direct instruction on the methods of organizing, gathering ideas, and writing comparison and contrast essays.
Grades
3 - 12
|
Student Interactive
|
Organizing & Summarizing
Circle Plot Diagram
The Circle Plot Diagram can be used as a prewriting graphic organizer for students writing original stories with a circular plot structure as well as a postreading organizer used to explore the text structures in a book.

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