Students who have difficulty seeing relationships may also have trouble drawing conclusions, making predictions or drawing inferences. Teachers can help students develop their abilities to see patterns and relationships by giving students many opportunities to classify and visualize data. Classification activities can be as simple as asking students to create a simple wheel with spokes [...]

Students can better understand the characters in a story by creating a character web. In the center of the web, write the story title then write the names of all of the main characters as spokes from the story title bubble. Once the main characters have been identified, then have students place at least 3 [...]

Graphic organizers are a great way to help students activate their prior knowledge on a topic. Prior to asking students to read content, ask them to brainstorm what they already know about a topic. Some good graphic organizers are KWL charts, Compare and Contrasting charts to compare pre-knowledge with post-knowledge and ABC charts where students [...]