Free Printable T-Chart Templates

About these t-chart handouts

A T-chart is the simplest graphic organizer: a heading across the top, a line down the middle, and two columns that keep ideas separate. Because the shape is so plain, it fits nearly any task that sorts information into two groups, such as fact and opinion, before and after, living and nonliving, or the claim and the evidence that supports it.

The two-column version leaves open space with no printed lines, which suits drawing, number work and notes of different lengths. The three-column version adds a third heading for tasks like observation, inference and question, or past, present and future. The pros and cons version has a plus and a minus column plus a box for the decision, which helps older students weigh an argument before they write about it. The lined version has numbered ruled lines in two wide columns for vocabulary and definitions, cause and effect, or word and meaning.

Blank heading bands let you or your students write the labels, so one page serves every subject. Type the topic in the Topic box to print it above the chart, and add the student name and date before copying a class set.

How to use them

1. Choose the number of columns, or the pros and cons or lined version.
2. Type the topic into the Topic box and print.
3. Students write their own headings in the shaded bands at the top.
4. Add one idea per row, keeping the columns across from each other where they connect.
5. Circle or number the two or three items that matter most before using the chart in writing.

Classroom tips

• Model one row aloud before students begin so they see how an item in the left column links to the right.
• For pros and cons, ask students to star the one point on each side they find strongest.
• Use the lined version as a two-column vocabulary list for word and meaning pairs.
• Fold the chart down the center after finishing so students can quiz a partner on one column.

Last reviewed 2026-10-03. Handout Hero designs are original and made for this site. They are general reference material; check your own school, district or tradition where it matters.