The Power of T Charts for Higher Level Thinking

Free T-Charts For Students

Haven't Used a T-Chart With Your Students?

It's time to start!

We've long known that graphic organizers are a great tool to promote both written work and higher level thinking. A simple T-Chart can be used with so many concepts and they are pretty easy for students to learn how to use them. A T Chart helps to organize to sides of thinking, they support making decisions, gathering facts, comparing and contrasting and analyze patterns to mention a few.

A T-Chart looks like it sounds, there is a topic and there is a left and right side to the T. Many different words can be used in the T-Chart headings. Here are just a few:

• Advantages / Disadvantages
• Pluses / Minuses
• +  /  -
• Pros / Cons
• For  /  Against
• Positive / Negative
• Agree / Disagree
• Favor / Oppose
• Thumbs up /  Thumbs Down

The topics are endless to use with T-Charts, here are a few to get you started:

• Homework
• Owning a Pet
• Longer Recess
• A pool in the school
• Uniforms at school
• Tablets for all students

This week, I've created a variety of T-Chart graphic organizers.  For a variety of T-Chart graphic organizers and topic ideas, you'll find everything you need right here.