I just love GO’s – Graphic Organisers. Some might say that I am the GO Queen. I truly believe that they are a really good way of organising thoughts and ideas so I use them in the class all-the-time. Now I thought I had a pretty extensive list of links for graphic organisers in my del.cio.us account until I came across this beauty of a site listed on Langwitches Links for 2007-11-21 post that popped up in my google reader today.

Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers is one of the best sites I’ve seen for downloading GO templates in PDF form.  According to their details you can type in your comments and print them out after downloading the PDF file.

What really sets it apart from the sites that I’ve collected is the Graphic Organizer Teaching Notes. These are fantastic! All the GO’s are organised into sections stipulating which GO is best for the sort of information or idea you’d like to organise, click on the GO you’d like to try and hey presto – there’s a specific lesson plan for introducing it to your students. Included in the plan are “At a Glance – which I think is close to what we NZers would call Learning Intentions;  support for reading, and support for writing PLUS ideas for differentiating the lesson – now that’s handy.

I know this is a site that I will be visiting again and again and again.