What Are Graphic Organizers?
You can call them graphic organizers, pictorial organizers, webs, maps, concept maps, or whatever other name you wish to give them, but graphic organizers are basically visual ways to represent information. Graphic Organizers arrange information:

• according to main ideas, subtopics, and details
• in sequence such as beginning, middle, and end
• to show the relationships between major events in a story
• according to the similarities or differences between two or more concepts
• by its components, as in the elements of a story such as problem and solution
• ...and lots of other ways

SEQUENCING
Story Board
Description: Your students can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a sequential task.

Train Track Story Board
Description: Your students can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a sequential task.

Sequence Chart
Description: List steps or events in time order.

BRAINSTORMING
Simple Clusters

CLASSIFYING
Circle Chart
Classifying Chart

IDENTIFYING
Character Traits
Description: Characters (and real-life people) have unique attributes called traits. Use this organizer to assist students in writing out character traits.

Key Points
Description: This graphic organizer uses pictures of keys to remind students of this task and to help them identify the main points in their reading.

Problem-Solution
Description: Helps students focus on the four areas critical to problem-solving: identifying the problem, listing the consequences or results of that problem, and proposing solutions.

Cause-Effect
Description: Identifying cause and effect relationships within a story helps students focus on two important elements of comprehension: what happens in the story and why it happened.

Choices / Pros and Con

RECORDING
The Five W's (Version 1)
Description: Five W's diagrams are a type of graphic organizer that let the student think about and list the "Who, When, Where, What, and Why" of a story or event in a simple visual way.

The Five W's (Version 2)
Description: Five W's diagrams are a type of graphic organizer that let the student think about and list the "Who, When, Where, What, and Why" of a story or event in a simple visual way.

Research Organizer

MAPPING
Sentence Map (Version 1)
Description: A way for students to identify key elements of a story. The setting, characters, problem, solution, and key events.

Sentence Map (Version 2)
Description: A way for students to identify key elements of a story. The setting, characters, problem, solution, and key events.

Sentence Map (Version 3)
Description: A way for students to identify key elements of a story. The setting, characters, problem, solution, and key events.


COMPARING
Venn Diagram (2 Circles and 3 circles / Version 1)
Description: Describe and compare characteristics of items (things, people, places, events, ideas, etc) for making connections or posing questions.

Venn Diagram (2 Circles with lines inside / Version 2)
Description: Describe and compare characteristics of items (things, people, places, events, ideas, etc) for making connections or posing questions.