Graphic Organisers

Help children to organise and identify the main idea and the supporting details. Children can write or draw.

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 students activate a child’s prior knowledge. 3 columns: What I Want to Know, What I Want to Find out, What I Have Learnt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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