Informational Text Graphic Organizer: RI.1 Making Inferences | ELA Nonficton

Teaching informational text in high school ELA can be difficult at times.  I use an article of the week and student-choice hybrid model to make sure that I am covering the standards while still keeping students engaged.  

 Every week, I’ll pass out a new article-of-the-week graphic organizer.  Each organizer targets a specific RI standard and gives students both a reading task and a writing task that correlates with the standard.  

I choose RI standards that cover each RI portion for grades 9-12. Grades 6-8 will be coming soon! 

I’ve included an assignment sheet for students to use that includes an overview of what they’ll do each week and a selection of websites that they can use for choice articles.  This is a completely editable template so that you can re-work it to fit your students’ own needs.  

Please note that this product does NOT contain an article, but rather a graphic organizer + rubric that can be used with any text.   

When you purchase this product, you’ll receive:

1. A student instruction sheet (editable)
2. 2-page graphic organizer for RI Standard: RI.1 - Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
3. Rubric for teacher to use when grading graphic organizer