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54 Story TrailsEasy

Medium

Hard� Grades: K–5� Level of Difficulty: Medium-Hard

OverviewStudents will develop the following reading strategies for this kind of graphic organizer:

Making personal connectionsUsing prior knowledgePredictingVisualizingMaking inferences

This graphic organizer offers a structure for students to use to put events from a story or the stages of anhistorical event into chronological order. Understanding of the key events facilitates greater exploration intothe structure of the story.

Are the events related by cause and effect, do they connect as situation-problem-solution, or is the storysimply one of beginning-middle-end? Recording the text and visual images of the key events also enhancesstudents’ comprehension.

STORYTRAILS

Name __________________________

Date __________________________

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Roger Roosevelt

3/27/12

HarryPotter meetsHagrid who

tells him he’sa wizard.

Harry gets a wand at

Diagon Alley.

Harry issorted into

Gryffindor andbefriends Ron and

Hermione.

The troll isdefeated and thethree friends are

suspicious ofSnape.

Harry winsthe Quidditch

match.

The Sorcerer’sStone is destroyed.

When you first introduce students to StoryTrails and History Maps (Graphic Organizer55), select the key events, arrange them inchronological order, and instruct the studentsto reexamine these events for specific detailsthat can be illustrated.

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55 History Map

Easy Hard

� Grades: K–5� Level of Difficulty: Easy-Medium-Hard

The History Map graphic organizer is similar to Graphic Organizer 54, StoryTrails. See the overview and tips for classroom implementation for that graphicorganizer.

Name __________________________

Date __________________________

HISTORYMAP

1

3

2

4

6

5

Julie Cassidy

3/3/12

Boston Massacrekilled dozens of

British and Patriots Stamp Act made many

Patriots angry

British occupied Boston

Boston TeaParty protested

the tea tax

Shots at Lexington and

ConcordDeclaration of Independance

written

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