Sample Graphic Organizer

for a Single Paragraph

 

                                                                                                                             

topic: (main  idea)
controlling idea: (what you're saying about the main idea)

  details                                                                       elaborations (how? why? example?)

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

ideas for a concluding sentence (restate main idea, draw conclusion, state opinion, summarize points)

 

 

Janet Parady, M.S. Ed. Language Arts Department Head, Landmark High School, and Margo White, M.S. Ed

The Trickster in African and African-American Folktales: A Landmark School Writing Unit, © 2003 Landmark School, Inc.