Nonfiction Graphic Organizer

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Name:Title:Topic:Fact 1Something I learnedFact 2Something else I learnedFact 3One more thing I learnedA text feature I usedA heading, caption, diagram, map or glossaryA question I still haveSomething the text did not tell me
Nonfiction graphic organizer: three facts, a text feature, a question A Topic line at the top, a box for each of three facts, a box for one text feature the reader used, and a box at the foot for a question the text left open.
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How it works

A story map asks for characters, a setting and a problem. This nonfiction graphic organizer asks for what an informational text gives a reader: facts, and text features to find them with.

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Start with the text features

The 1st and 2nd grade Common Core standards ask readers to know and use text features to find facts, so the opening sheet has a box for one. For a book with many, the text features chart has a row for each.

A summary graphic organizer for informational text

The summarizing informational text graphic organizer builds a summary from one sentence about each section, which suits 4th grade: its standard asks readers to summarize the text. For 6th grade and up, the graphic organizer for nonfiction summary has a box to park opinions in, because the standard asks for a summary distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

  • The 4th grade standard gives four text structures as examples: chronology, comparison, cause and effect, problem and solution. One sheet asks which a text has.
  • For kindergarten to 2nd grade, the draw and write sheet has picture space over primary lines.

Questions and answers

What is a nonfiction graphic organizer?

A one-page frame of headed boxes for notes on a text that gives information. A reader fills it in during or after reading, then uses it to retell, discuss or summarize the text.

Is there a nonfiction graphic organizer PDF?

Yes. Each of these nonfiction graphic organizers saves as a one-page PDF, on Letter or A4, from the print dialog.

What are text features?

The parts of an informational text that help a reader find things. Headings, tables of contents, glossaries, captions, bold print, subheadings and indexes are among the ones the 1st and 2nd grade Common Core standards list.

All 10 organizers

For any nonfiction text 5

  • Author's purpose organizer: answer, explain or describe What the text is about, what the author sets out to answer, explain or describe, and how the reader can tell. The 2nd grade standard words the main purpose of a text this way.
  • Before and after reading chart One row an idea: what I thought before reading, what the text says, and the page. For a topic the class already has ideas about.
  • Nonfiction exit ticket, two to a page Two half sheets with a cut line between them: the most important fact, a text feature that helped, and a question.
  • Nonfiction graphic organizer: three facts, a text feature, a question A Topic line at the top, a box for each of three facts, a box for one text feature the reader used, and a box at the foot for a question the text left open.
  • Nonfiction organizer to draw and write Two fact boxes with open space for a picture over primary lines, and a wide box for a question. For readers who can show a fact before they can write much of it.
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Text features and structure 3

  • Chapter notes chart: heading, what the section says, key words One row for each heading of a chapter in a science or social studies book: the heading, what its section says, and the key words in it.
  • Text features chart One row a text feature: its name, the page it is on, and what it helped the reader find or learn.
  • Text structure organizer: how the text is built A box for the structure, a box for the words that gave it away, and a wide box for how the parts fit together.

Summaries of informational text 2

  • Nonfiction summary organizer with opinions kept out A wide box for the central idea, a box for key details beside a box to park opinions in, and the summary at the foot.
  • Summarizing informational text graphic organizer: section by section A box for each of three sections of the text, one sentence each, then a box at the foot for a summary of the whole text.

How this list was compiled: Our own layouts and wording; no publisher's organizer is copied. The names of text features and text structures and the grade wordings were checked against the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, reading standards for informational text, read October 8, 2026. Licence: own work

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