Ready to use and AI-Powered Graphic Organizers

Newsela offers both ready-to-use Graphic Organizers for Newsela articles via Formative, and AI-powered Graphic Organizers that teachers can create within Newsela and either download as PDF or add to their assignments.

Newsela Graphic Organizers are also available in Spanish. The Spanish Graphic Organizers library is a collection of essential and frequently used general graphic organizers translated into Spanish, provided as ready to use PDFs. These organizers will be available to customers just like the current English worksheets. Teachers can locate the Spanish Graphic Organizers by searching for Graphic Organizers in the search bar or by accessing the specific bundle linked here.

Teachers can utilize ready to use graphic organizers in Formative. These can be accessed via the Formative section of the Assignment Builder (on the right side of the article's page)

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Select a graphic organizer topic from the presented options by clicking on it. You will then be presented with multiple options for individual graphic organizers, scroll through to review the list and make your selection by clicking on your desired graphic organizer.

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After making your selection, you will be re-directed to your Formative account, and prompted to save a copy of the graphic organizer within Formative. Click "Copy" to confirm.

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Once the copy has been saved to your account, it will be added to your Formatives tab. Locate it on your list and click into it. You will be able to tailor the formative to your liking, and assign it to your students.

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AI-Powered Graphic Organizers allow teachers to generate customized resources based on specific articles in Newsela, that they can then either download and print or add directly into assignments, based on articles and teacher input.

  1. Click on the 'Graphic Organizers' button

  2. Select your preferred template from the presented options. The available options currently include:

    • Main Idea and Details Chart

    • KWL Chart (Know, Want to know, Learned)

    • Compare and Contrast Diagram

    • Anticipation Guide (Agree/Disagree)

    • Context Clues Detective

    • Frayer Model (Vocabulary Four-Square)

  3. Edit the template to your liking

  4. Proceed to either download as PDF for print distribution to students, or add directly to the online Newsela assignment. You can check-mark to select multiple Graphic Organizers to either download or add to the assignment in-bulk

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The Student View

When assigned Graphic Organizers, students will find them within the assignment's activities panel.

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Students will click on the activity to open the Graphic Organizer and interact with it online. The article will continue to be displayed next to the Graphic Organizer for ease of reference.

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Reviewing Graphic Organizers Student Responses

To review your students' responses to Graphic Organizers open the assignment on your end

  1. Click "view" next to the Graphic Organizers activity, or click "Review" under the Graphic Organizers column for any of the students listed

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  2. Use the left-right arrows to navigate back and forth between different Graphic Organizers

  3. Scroll down the window to review all the student responses for the selected Graphic Organizer

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  4. At the bottom of the window you will find a list of students who have not completed the activity yet

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