Graphic Organizers Grade 8

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This set of 39 graphic organizers can be used with Kurzwel’s reading and study skills tools to support writing in many subject areas. Some of the organizers are: Story map, time line, cluster word web, ladder, 5 W’s. You can have students add text notes , voice notes, sticky notes to elaborate on their ideas.

This activity supports the Ministry of Education Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts Grade 8 Writing & Representing (Purposes) : -create straightforward informational writing and representations, using prompts to elicit ideas and knowledge, featuring – ideas represented through words, sentences, and images that connect to a topic – developing word choice by beginning to use content-specific vocabulary and some detail – developing voice by showing how they think and feel about a topic – an organization that follows a form modelled by the teacher, such as a list, web, chart, cluster, or other graphic organizer. Submitted by Jane Rondow

Under BC’s new curriculum (2016):
English Language Arts: Language and text can be a source of creativity and joy; Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works. content: Strategies and processes