After students read an article or other work of nonfiction, they can use the Nonfiction Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details in the text.
Nonfiction Pyramid
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I-Search Chart
9 - 12
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As part of an I-Search writing process, this handout facilitates the formation of meaningful questions and subquestions for student inquiry.
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I-Search Process Reflection Chart
9 - 12
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This chart asks students to consider their challenges and successes across the span of the research process, from question formulation to the final write-up.
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Connection Web
3 - 8
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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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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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Seed Discussion Organizer
5 - 12
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Students can utilize this printout to organize their thoughts as a new concept or content is introduced through a Seed Discussion. This printout readies students to acquire new knowledge by organizing what they know and what they're prepared to learn.
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Sequence of Events Chart
3 - 12
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This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.