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  • (-) Organizing & Summarizing

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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.

Compare & Contrast Map
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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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.
Bio Cube
Grades
3 - 12
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Student Interactive
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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
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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.

Grades
K - 12
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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.

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