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SESSION 2 | Grades 2-12 / ELL Levels 2-5

Organize text details in order to write

Type of Information

Identify 3 common ways to organize information

Introduce consistent and flexible graphic organizers to use in all grade levels and all content areas.

Storyboard 3-box

3-Box: PDF | Jamboard
5-Box: PDF | Jamboard
9-Box: PDF | Jamboard

Dissected Web JPEG

Web | PDF
Dissected Web | PDF
Jamboard | Example | Google Slide

Compare Contrast T-Chart

T-Chart: PDF | Jamboard

Adapt the Storyboard to fit all chronological texts.

Track main ideas and details within a Dissected Web.

Adjust a T-Chart to fit various text structures.

How do I make Smekens strategies digital and interactive?

School-Day Sort Resources

Introduce each organization type with a series of 3 mini-posters.

Utilize the Organize It Table Tent to select the appropriate order of information. Simple assembly.

Arrangement of information

Arrange related information into groups

Return to a multistep List, Sort, Label process but execute it more efficiently.

ICON. List Sort Label

Flashcards | Smartboard Version

Easy topic ideas to generate listed details

Identify ways that details could be the same or similar
PDF

Transitions between information

Transition between information

Connect ideas within paragraphs.

Advance from transition words to phrases to sentences.