Reading Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension

Graphic Organizers for Any Book- Ready to help your students DIVE into any text and better understand different areas of reading comprehension? Then, this set of reading graphic organizers is for you!

This set of 15 graphic organizers can be used with any book and are perfect for helping your students work through different reading comprehension strategies.

Graphic Organizers in this set:

1. Story Elements- Students are guided to document the different elements of a text they read.
2. Let’s Retell- Students retell a text using the guide words beginning, middle, and end
3. Summarizing Fiction- Add more details to your student’s summaries with this structured retell detailing: Somebody, wanted, but, so, then.
4. Figurative Language- Help your students better understand figurative language by identifying and sharing what it means.
5. Character Traits- Students draw the character and then fill out different traits.
6. Identify the Theme- After reading a text, students work to use clues from the story to identify the theme.
7. Make Connections- Students are encouraged to make connections in different ways.
8. Compare and Contrast- After reading two texts on the same topic, students work to identify the similarities and differences.
9. Central Idea and Details- After reading a text, students work to identify the central idea and supporting details. Includes a Main Idea and details version.
10. Ask the Top Questions- After reading a text, students work to ask and answer the top questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW.
11. Author’s Purpose- Students work to identify the author’s purpose and find supporting details.
12. 12. Author’s Opinion- after reading a text, students work to find clues of the author’s feelings on a topic. Includes suggestions of “author’s point of view”.
13. KWL- Use to document learning during your students.
14. Learning 3-2-1-Encourages students to summarize their learning by sharing three facts they learned, two things they found interesting, and one thing they have a question about.
15. Can-Have-Are- After learning about an item, students work to brainstorm words and phrases that describe the item using “Can, Have, and Are”.