Graphic Organisers

Organise concepts by identifying the main idea and the supporting details. Write or draw.

This graphic organiser is designed to help readers identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.

Organise a summary of a text using the 6 headings: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How.

Identify the main idea and supporting ideas of a page/chapter/text.

A story map template to help learners visualise and identify the structure of a text. Identify the type of text, setting, characters and key events.

Map out the events of a text. Draw or write. Great for retells and summarising.

Use this story map to order the events of a story. Great for retells and summarising.

Summarise a text by writing and drawing. What happened in the beginning? Middle? End?

Use this worksheet to allow students to record connections made to a text. Connect the text to ‘A time in my life’, ‘Another book’ and ‘A person I know’.

Use this graphic organiser to help learners activate a their prior knowledge. 3 columns: What I Want to Know, What I Want to Find out, What I Have Learnt.

This chart assists students to ask a range of questions during and after reading.

Encourages students to use context clues within a text to help work out the meaning of words.

This graphic organiser encourages students to think about language use in texts and how it can be used to create images.

Devise solutions to problems. Useful for higher order thinking. Can be used to suggest solutions to complications within a text.

Identify ’cause and effect’ relationships. Identify what happened and what caused it to happen.

Learn about ’cause and effect’ relationships by linking events in an ordered sequence.

Image Cluster Organiser

Fill the middle oval by writing (or drawing!) about a character/setting. Fill the surrounding circles with details about the character/setting. Also useful for teaching main idea, supporting details.