PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer! The PEEL acronym—which stands for point, evidence, explain, and link—is a writing strategy that helps learners introduce their topic and support it with relevant evidence and reasoning, in a clear and logical format. Have your students use this graphic organizer to help them plan out their argumentative or informational paragraphs before they begin writing. Ideal for students in fifth through eighth grade, this versatile resource can be used to fit any argumentative writing prompt you’d like students to answer.

For additional support, check out the PEEL Writing Strategy Handout which features clear explanations and sentence starters for each of the components.