Graphic Organisers
Graphic organisers to support teaching comprehension strategies such as summarising, retell, main idea, cause and effect, self-questioning and more. More information on comprehension strategies here.
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Main Idea Concept Map
Organise concepts by identifying the main idea and the supporting details. Write or draw. |
Main Idea/Summary Chart
This graphic organiser is designed to help readers identify the main idea and supporting details of a text. |
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Summarising: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
Organise a summary of a text using the 6 headings: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. |
Main Idea/Supporting Ideas
Identify the main idea and supporting ideas of a page/chapter/text. |
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Story Map Overview
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. |
Story Board
Map out the events of a text. Draw or write. Great for retells and summarising. |
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Story Sequence Organiser
Use this story map to order the events of a story. Great for retells and summarising. |
Summarising: Beginning Middle, End
Summarise a text by writing and drawing. What happened in the beginning? Middle? End? |
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Connecting with the Text
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’. |
KWL Chart
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. |
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Self-Questioning Chart
This chart assists students to ask a range of questions during and after reading. |
Vocabulary Builder
Encourages students to use context clues within a text to help work out the meaning of words. |
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Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like
This graphic organiser encourages students to think about language use in texts and how it can be used to create images. |
Problems and Solutions
Devise solutions to problems. Useful for higher order thinking. Can be used to suggest solutions to complications within a text. |
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Cause and Effect
Identify ’cause and effect’ relationships. Identify what happened and what caused it to happen. |
Chain of Events
Learn about ’cause and effect’ relationships by linking events in an ordered sequence. |
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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. |
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