Activities & Lessons
Help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively with these free graphic organizer templates, available for download. They can be used to structure writing projects and help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, and brainstorming.
Printable Graphic Organizers
Select a blank graphic organizer from the following categories depending on your curriculum needs.
Sequence of Events
Main Topic and Key Details
- Spider Map
- Garden Gate
- Describing Wheel
- Cluster/Word Web 1
- Cluster/Word Web 2
- Cluster/Word Web 3
- Idea Rake
- Ladder
- E-Chart
- Ticktacktoe
- Four-Column Chart
- Clock
- Sandwich
- T-Chart
- Inverted Triangle
- Tree Chart
- Persuasion Map
- Ice Cream Cone
Compare/Contrast

Story Planning
Other Graphic Organizers
- Sense Chart
- Problem/Solution Chart
- ISP Chart (Information, Sources, Page)
- Fact and Opinion
- Five W's Chart
- Goal-Reasons Web
- Idea Wheel
- KWL Chart
- KWS Chart
- Observation Chart
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