The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
This is a lesson plan designed to help students sequence a story. Many of the strategies within the lesson plan will support your multi-lingual students. This lesson was used with 3rd grade, but could easily be adapted to suit other grade levels.
This Text Structure Cheat Sheet includes the following:
*The Five Text Structures: Description, Sequence, Compare & Contrast. Problem & Solution, and Cause & Effect.
*The purpose for each text structure
*A brainstorming map for each text structure
*Key words that are used for each text structure
*Examples of each text structure
Students can use this cheat sheet to help them identify text structures in nonfiction or use them in their writing.
Graphic organizers are a great tool to use when teaching English language learners (ELLs). Visual illustrations allow ELLs to better understand the material while learning important vocabulary.
Before reading, create a graphic organizer that uses the titles and subtitles of an informational text.