Cracking the Common Core Code: Graphic Organizers for Multi-Level Learners

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These Common Core aligned graphic organizers offer students an easy way to organize their thinking about what they’re reading and writing.

They train students to read with laser-sharp focus and to write with confidence.

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Here are a few ways GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS help children become stronger readers and more articulate writers:

1. Graphic organizers make organized writing accessible to all students.
2. Graphic organizers act as catalysts for students to research timely topics.
3. Graphic organizers train students to become critical readers by requiring them to select, discuss, and analyze key words, phrases, and lines.
4. Graphic organizers direct students’ attention to the stylistic devices, academic vocabulary, and craft features that they will be required use in their own pieces.

Organizers/Samples by Conceptual Category in Cracking the Common Core Code

Analyze, draw, or explain to demonstrate understanding.
Organizer 1: Picture It. Explain It.
Organizer 2: What? How?
Organizer 3: Visual Problem Solving 1
Organizer 4: Visual Problem Solving 2
Organizer 5: All About ____

Read using text evidence and write using precise language.
Organizer 6: Shades of Meaning
Organizer 7: Negative Task Card
Organizer 8: Text Analysis
Organizer 9: Text Insights
Organizer 10: Lucky 7

Compare and contrast to build knowledge.
Organizer 11: Recall and Reflect
Organizer 12: Text to Text Comparison
Organizer 13: Text to Film Comparison
Organizer 14: Thoughts About______
Organizer 15: Consider the Source

Summarize data and key details.
Organizer 16: Official Police Report
Organizer 17: Transition Tickets
Organizer 18: TNT
Organizer 19: Fast Fact Frame
Organizer 20: 321

Gather information for writing and problem solving.
Organizer 21: Give Me Five!
Organizer 22: Top 10
Organizer 23: Positive Task

Participate in a range of conversations and collaborations.
Organizer 24: Text Talk
Organizer 25: Info Search
Organizer 26: Tic-Tac-Toe Discussion

Conduct dynamic, formative assessment conferences.
Organizer 27: 2 Stars and a Wish
Organizer 28: Take 5

Use multi-purpose classics across content areas.
Organizer 29: Four Square
Organizer 30: T-Chart
Organizer 31: Bingo Board

Components of Cracking the Common Core Code

Introduction
Benefits of and Uses for Graphic Organizers
Mathematics Standards by Domains Reference Chart
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards Reference Chart

Conceptual Categories
Analyze, draw, or explain to demonstrate understanding.
Read using text evidence and write using precise language.
Compare and contrast to build knowledge.
Summarize data and key details.
Gather information for writing and problem solving.
Participate in a range of conversations and collaborations.
Conduct dynamic, formative assessment conferences.
Use multi-purpose classics across content areas.

30+ Common Core Graphic Organizers and Lesson Ideas

Sample Unit

Bonus: Oversized Version of Template Organizers to use with Plastic Wipe-Off Sleeves

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