Yrjo edelmann biography graphic organizers for middle school pdf

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to use this site. This is a guest post by Richard Giso, an occasional contributor to our blog. Click here to see his earlier posts, and check back here on our Classroom Literacy blog frequently to see if he's got a new post up!

A visual organizer for biographies When you don't know how much material you'll include in the biography, a PDF is the ideal option.

You could also check out his blog, called Mr. Giso's Room to Read , in which he writes about fun classroom activities, behavior management, and classroom management. Hello all. Giso's Room to Read , and this is my third guest blog post featuring the biographies. You can read the earlier ones here and here. The Hameray Biography Series has been a hit in my multi-age classroom.

Students organize their ideas by filling out a graphic organizer.

Warm weather is hopefully upon us! This means many of us may be wrapping up a productive school year or adventuring on an extended year or summer program launch. Today, I am sharing with you a graphic organizer that works very well with the biography genre and is simple enough for students to use when reading on their own over the summer, as a way to think about the subjects of biographies, about fictional characters, or even about themselves!

When using it with a biography, the reader serves as researcher and records important information while reading the biography. The prompts help students collect main ideas from the text.