Eight organizers for any nonfiction text, on plain notebook lines. Page 1 names a text's structure from its signal words, and page 2 is problem and solution. Pages 3 to 6 are cause and effect: pairs, one cause with many effects, a chain of events and signal words. Pages 7 and 8 are a time line and a sequence of events.
Use page 1 first to find a text's structure, then the organizer that matches it: a time line for the history of an animal's comeback, problem and solution for a text about saving a habitat, a chain of events for how one change in an ecosystem led to another.
After your child reads an article, ask how it was organized: in order, by causes and effects, by comparing two things, or by a problem and its solution. Ask which words gave it away.
Graphic organizers for any nonfiction text: text structure with signal words, problem and solution, cause and effect, a time line and a sequence of events. Students name how a text is organized, trace causes and their effects, and put events in order.
Reading Organizers for 4th–5th Grade
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