Using this printout, students make personal associations to a text by finding and describing text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
![Making Connections](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/228_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=5t2l8nH9)
Making Connections
![Narrative Pyramid](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/323_1.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=UYPvxXsa)
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Narrative Pyramid
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
After students read a short story or chapter of a novel, they can use the Narrative Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details.
![Nonfiction Pyramid](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/325_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=oq7uSQIg)
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Nonfiction Pyramid
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
After students read an article or other work of nonfiction, they can use the Nonfiction Pyramid to reflect on key ideas and details in the text.
![Common Content Area Roots and Affixes](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/326_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=y1B9fnWu)
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Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
5 - 12
Printout
| Informational Sheet
This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.
![Connection Stems](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/327_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=VXzNXjqG)
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Connection Stems
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.
![K-W-L-S Chart](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/328_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=BXdoiLeg)
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K-W-L-S Chart
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This printable extends the familiar K-W-L's means of organizing students' prior knowledge, formulating inquiry questions, and recording new learning by adding space for questions for further inquiry.
![Venn Diagram, 3 Circles](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/334_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=oQwyrstg)
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Venn Diagram, 3 Circles
K - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students use this graphic organizer to describe similarities and differences between three objects or ideas.
![I-Search Chart](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/375_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=P9MAnAGx)
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I-Search Chart
9 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
As part of an I-Search writing process, this handout facilitates the formation of meaningful questions and subquestions for student inquiry.
![I-Search Process Reflection Chart](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/376_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=dtAsNUdL)
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I-Search Process Reflection Chart
9 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This chart asks students to consider their challenges and successes across the span of the research process, from question formulation to the final write-up.
![I-Chart](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/387_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=GfadN5pY)
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I-Chart
3 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This printout assists students with generating meaningful questions about a topic and organizing their writing by using a structured guide while researching.
![Power Notes](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/388_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=AeXCIyIc)
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Power Notes
6 - 12
Printout
| Writing Starter
This printout teaches students a method for organizing their thoughts that involves assigning "powers" to different ideas. This outlining technique helps students differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.
![Exit Slips](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/389_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=1mz1BZGA)
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Exit Slips
K - 12
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| Assessment Tool
This printout provides prompts that help students reflect on and process new information and think critically, and offers teachers the opportunity to differentiate upcoming instruction based on these reflections.
![Oral Presentation Rubric](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/448_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=ubAB5zbY)
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Oral Presentation Rubric
3 - 12
Printout
| Assessment Tool
This rubric is designed to be used for any oral presentation. Students are scored in three categories—delivery, content, and audience awareness.
![Concept Map](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/449_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=GUPKiJ8x)
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Concept Map
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This concept map can be used in a variety of ways to show relationships between words and phrases. Students can add arrows as needed and group certain ideas together.
![Readers Theatre Rubric](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/450_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=44A4f7t9)
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Readers Theatre Rubric
3 - 12
Printout
| Assessment Tool
This rubric is designed to be used for any Readers Theatre performance. Students are scored both individually in the areas of delivery and cooperation and as a group in the area of active, on-task participation.
![Haiku Starter](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/451_0.jpg?h=3f42818d&itok=3msiF7EU)
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Haiku Starter
2 - 6
Printout
| Writing Starter
This graphic organizer provides students the opportunity to brainstorm words about a given topic, count and record the syllables, and draft a haiku.
![Connection Web](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/483_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=96pSc_rf)
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Connection Web
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
![Double-Entry Journal](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/484_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=S1u2PFzp)
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Double-Entry Journal
3 - 8
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
![RAFT Writing Template](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/504_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=QIXMrz5m)
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RAFT Writing Template
5 - 12
Printout
| Writing Starter
Students can utilize this printout to organize their writing as they learn to use the RAFT strategy. This printout enables students to clearly define their role, audience, format, and topic for writing.
![Seed Discussion Organizer](/sites/default/files/styles/focal_point_350x350/public/505_0.jpg?h=16ec4b77&itok=Dn90Rk2t)
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Seed Discussion Organizer
5 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
Students can utilize this printout to organize their thoughts as a new concept or content is introduced through a Seed Discussion. This printout readies students to acquire new knowledge by organizing what they know and what they're prepared to learn.