Allison Cochran

Graphic organizer to help students plan to write a step-by-step essay to complete a task. Can be used for presentation.

Template to help students learn how to complete an Informational Essay. Includes types of sentences and definitions of each.

Reading log that will help increase student comprehension. Aids in critical thinking in areas such as vocabulary, setting, theme, writer and reader purpose, plot structure, questions while reading, title, and connection to the story. Created to connect with the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) program by recording Lexile and quiz score. Students read a story, fill out the log, and take a quiz. Made to work with ANY story or literature activity: literature circle, novel study, literacy center.

Rubric to use for scoring journal writing. Used to help students self-asses their journal writing and other student's journal writing. To be used after given a prompt for journal writing and completing a journal entry. Student fills out rubric for self and completes for another student's work.

This is a graphic organizer that teaches your students how to write a compare contrast essay using the Point by Point method. They write about one element of all comparisons at a time.

Template to help students write a short story. Includes elements of plot, setting, and character development in order to add all elements needed to write a story. Once template is completed, students will use to help make sure all elements are included when writing a short story.

Graphic organizer book that helps students learn eight types of figurative language. Includes: Simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, oxymoron, hyperbole, allusion, and idiom.

This is a graphic organizer that teaches your students how to write a compare contrast essay using the Block method. They write about each topic at a time.

Graphic organizer that allows students to help plan to write a persuasive essay.

Graphic organizer that allows students to plan characters for a short story.

Graphic organizer that allows students to plan for writing a short story by including all elements of plot.