Graphic Organizers and Mind Maps
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Graphic Organizers SmartCard
Transform your classroom into a visual think tank with graphic organizers! This colorful SmartCard describes the rationale for using graphic organizers, provides ideas and activities across the curriculum, and illustrates over 30 graphic organizers including: Chains, Ladder, Cycle Graph, Mind Map, Venn Diagrams, Word Web, Concept Map, Concept Charts, Compare/Contrast Charts, PMI, Target, Pie Chart, Fish Bone, Categories, Tree, Pyramid, Matrix, and Plot. You’ll find loads of ideas to use graphic organizers in your class: have students graph the seasons with a Cycle Graph, compare and contrast the branches of government or story characters with a Venn Diagram, Mind Map any important concepts, draw the events of a story or historical event with a Picture Strip, and analyze cause and effect with a Fish Bone. An excellent, quick-reference card for all types of graphic organizers. TGO • $4
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Mind Mapping SmartCard
Mind mapping is a fast and fun way for students to take visual notes and for you to present concepts to students. Use mind mapping in your class to foster creativity, boost comprehension and retention of what you teach, and simultaneously engage multiple intelligences! This colorful SmartCard describes the rationale for using mind maps in the classroom; provides ideas and activities to introduce and use mind mapping in your class; describes how to create mind maps step-by-step; offers many helpful hints; illustrates sample mind maps; provides mind mapping ideas for mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science; and illustrates how to use mind maps for lesson, theme, and unit planning. A great resource you’ll turn to time and time again. TMM • $4
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Organizing Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Sandra Parks & Howard Black
Integrate thinking skills across the curriculum in your elementary classroom with these graphic organizers. These supplemental handbooks include lesson plans and tons of reproducible graphic organizers to improve students' higher-order thinking skills.
Organizing Thinking I
(Grades 2-4) 307 pages. DPBOT • $37
  Organizing Thinking II
(Grades 5-8) 341 pages. DPBOT2 • $37
Mapping Inner Space
Learning and Teaching Mind Mapping
Nancy Margulies (All Grades)
Unleash your students' creativity and visual/spatial intelligence with mind maps! Includes how to become a mind mapper and how to teach mind mapping with lots of great examples. 123 pages. DMM • $31

Same-Different Book Combo
Spencer Kagan, Illustrated by Celso Rodriguez (All Grades)
Your students learn analytic thinking skills and communication skills as they play these energizing games. Students work in pairs or teams on opposite sides of a barrier to discover what’s the same and what’s different in two carefully illustrated pictures. The holiday version has each holiday of the school year! The fairy tales book has your students’ favorite fairy tales such as Cinderella, Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Jack & the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Three Little Pigs. The game is easy to set up and play. Includes instructions and blackline illustrations, recording sheets, and keys for each holiday and fairy tale. Guaranteed to be a favorite in your class. Regular price $28. Combo price $22 • CSD Save $6!

Books also sold separately.
Holidays
88 pages. BKSH • $14
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  Fairy Tales
84 pages. BKSF • $14
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Graphic Organizers Simplified
Building Reading, Writing, & Thinking Skills
Karen Bromley & Marcia Modlo
This four-book series is a great way to integrate thinking, reading, and writing without all the preparation time. These books present reading selections, each with an appropriate graphic organizer. Each ready-to-use lesson consists of three parts: 1) Story/Article hand picked for level-appropriate readability from Highlights for Children magazine; 2) Graphic Organizer to study, complete, or create; 3) Worksheets that involve comprehension, analyzing, thinking, and writing. Graphic Organizers include web, flow charts, tables, Venn diagrams, and timelines. Selections of fiction, nonfiction, biography, and poetry cover a broad range of topics—mystery, adventure, humor, fantasy, folklore, multicultural, history, geography, sports, health, and science. Answer keys included. 64 pages each.

Book A
(Grades 2-3) DBMGA • $8

Book B
(Grades 3-4) DBMGB • $8

Book C
(Grades 4-5) DBMGC • $8

Book D
(Grades 5-6) DBMGD • $8

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