Graphic organizers help your students to better understand what they read. Distribute our Top 20 Literature Graphic Organizers in this gallery, then browse our entire collection of to find ones that meet your class's needs.
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Three Paragraph Main Idea and Details Chart

Three Paragraph Main Idea and Details Chart

This graphic organizer will help your students identify the main idea and supporting facts in three paragraphs. It's excellent for analyzing a five-paragraph essay. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details

The Herringbone: Main Idea and Supporting Details

The object of this graphic organizer is to identify the main idea and supporting details.
Sequencing

Sequencing

Your child can use this graphic organizer to identify the sequence of events in a story or a sequential task. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Time Line

Time Line

This ready-to-use time line is a helpful tool for organizing ideas and events chronologically. It's helpful when teaching sequence of events in reading, social studies, science, and any subject in which students need to identify chronology.
Event Map

Event Map

Organizing the who, what, where, when, why, and how of an event is the goal of this graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Story Map Graphic Organizer

Story Map Graphic Organizer

Using a story map helps children to identify key elements in a story such as characters or events. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Title and Story Map

Title and Story Map

Students review a story by filling in the title and a problem in this graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How

Use this graphic organizer to help students write in a journalistic fashion. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing. This graphic organizer can be used for creative writing activities, in-class or take-home journals, to gather information as part of a reading comprehension exercise, or as a way to collect and display factual information gathered during research.
Five Elements of a Plot

Five Elements of a Plot

Five elements of a story's plot (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) provide the structure for this graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Conflict Dissection

Conflict Dissection

Students will be able to identify the characters and analyze the setting, problem, and solution of stories using this graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Beginning, Middle, and End

Beginning, Middle, and End

Identify the sections of a story with this plot/story sequence graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.Use this reading graphic organizer with a literacy lesson plan: Sequencing: The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect

Students are asked to identify cause and effect of a story with this graphic organizer. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Double Venn Diagram, Version 1

Double Venn Diagram, Version 1

Use this two-part Venn diagram to identify differences and similarities. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Concept Map -- Version 2

Concept Map -- Version 2

Help Students sort out ideas with this basic web or Concept Map. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Central Issues

Central Issues

Students determine the similarities and differences of central issues in a story with this chart. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Problem and Solution

Problem and Solution

Students identify the problem and its solution after reading a passage or story with this graphic organizer. Check for student understanding by using this printable in class or as a homework assignment. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
KWL Chart (Version 3)

KWL Chart (Version 3)

This simple KWL chart can be used in all curriculum areas and all grade levels. The activity will keep your students organized with new information they learn as well as key aspects of the topic that they want to learn more about.This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Story Comparison

Story Comparison

Use this chart to compare the basic elements of two stories. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Title, Character, Problem

Title, Character, Problem

Use this graphic organizer to create all the elements of a story or write about a book. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.
Web 1 (Concept Map)

Web 1 (Concept Map)

A web or Concept Map is a useful tool for students to brainstorm and organize ideas. This printable is customizable. Tailor the PDF to your teaching needs by typing in the highlighted fields before printing.

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"Two Travelers and the Bear": A Lesson on Aesop's Fable

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Asking Pre-Reading Questions

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"The Grasshopper and the Owl": A Fable by Aesop

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Intermediate Question-Answer Relationships

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The Donkey and the Dog

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