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A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers

May 26, 2019

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Have you heard the whispers about one-pagers in the online teacher hallways? The concept of a one-pager, in which students share their most important takeaways on a single piece of blank paper, has really taken off recently.  

The one-pagers I see on Instagram draw me in like a slice of double chocolate mousse cake. The artistry students bring to representing their texts on a single piece of paper, blending images and ideas in creative color, is almost hypnotizing for me. Perhaps you’ve had the same experience.

But it’s the very beauty of the models that get posted that can drive students and teachers away from the one-pager activity. Sure, it’s great for super artistic students , we tend to think, but what about everyone else?

Turns out it CAN be great for everyone. As long as you know how to structure it.

What Is a One-Pager?

Let’s backtrack a bit and talk more about what a one-pager is. It’s pretty simple, really. Students take what they’ve learned—from a history textbook, a novel, a poem, a podcast, a Ted Talk, a guest speaker, a film—and put the highlights onto a single piece of paper. AVID first developed this strategy, but now it’s widely used in and out of AVID classrooms.

But why is this seemingly simple assignment so powerful?

As students create one-pagers, the information they put down becomes more memorable to them as they mix images and information. According to Allan Paivio’s dual coding theory, the brain has two ways of processing: the visual and the verbal. The combination of the two leads to the most powerful results. Students will remember more when they’ve mixed language and imagery.

Plus, one-pagers provide variety, a way for them to share what they’ve learned that goes beyond the usual written options. Students tend to surprise themselves with what they come up with, and their work makes for powerful displays of learning. Plus, they’re fun to make. Let’s not pretend that doesn’t matter.

So, assuming you’re sold on trying this out, you’re probably wondering what exactly goes into a one-pager?

Students might include quotations, ideas, images, analysis, key names and dates, and more. They might use their one-pagers to make connections to their own lives, to art or films, to pop culture, to what they’re learning in their other classes. They might even do it all. You’d be amazed at how much can fit on a single piece of paper.

Many teachers create lists of what students should put inside their one-pagers. Knowing they need two quotations, several symbolic images, one key theme, etc., helps guide students in their work.

The Art Problem

When creating one-pagers, artistic students tend to feature more sketches, doodles, icons and lettering. Students wary of art tend to feature more text, and can be reluctant to engage with the visual part of the assignment at all.

It was this issue—the issue of the art-haters—that first drew me into one-pagers two years ago. I had seen some stunning one-pagers posted in my Facebook group, Creative High School English . But the comments that followed were always the same. “That’s amazing work! But so many of my students don’t like art….”

Those comments struck a chord with me. For years I had dealt with comments from some of my own students about their distaste for artistic materials when I would introduce creative projects. No matter how much I explained that it was the intention behind their choices that mattered, I always got some pushback if there were any artistic elements involved in a project.

Was there a way to tweak the one-pager assignment so every student would feel confident in their success?

Another problem was one of overall design: Though they knew they needed to hit all the requirements their teachers listed, students still seemed to be overwhelmed by that huge blank page. What should go where? Did colored pencils really have to be involved?

A Simple Solution: Templates

As I thought about the problem, I wondered if students would feel less overwhelmed if they knew what needed to go where. If the quotations had to be in the middle, the themes in the upper left, the images across the bottom, etc. I began to play around with the shapes tool in PowerPoint, creating different one-pager templates.  

Then I began shaping my requirements, correlating each element with a space on the paper. Maybe the border could be the key quotations. The center would feature an important symbol. The themes could go in circles around the center. I developed a bunch of different templates for varied ways to respond to novels. Then I tried podcasts. Films. Poetry.

As I shared these templates with other teachers, I kept getting the same feedback: “It’s working!”  

That little bit of creative constraint actually frees students to use their imagination to represent what they have learned on the page without fear. They know what they need to put down, and where, but they are also free to expand and add to the template. To choose their own colors. To bring out what is most important to them through their creativity and artistry. And those super artistic students? They can just flip the template over and use the blank page on the back.

Beyond Novels

There are so many ways to integrate this creative strategy into your classroom. While one-pagers lend themselves beautifully to final assessments after reading independent novels, literature circle selections, or whole class novels, that’s really just the beginning.

You can use them to get to know students better, as with a name tent or “about me” one-pager at the beginning of the year. One school used templates to have every student create a one-pager about their own lives, collecting them all into hallway displays as part of a project they called “Tell your Story.”

You can also use them to help students focus in on the most important information in nonfiction articles and books. One EFL teacher in Croatia used the templates to have students share key takeaways from articles they read about social media. Not only did students have to analyze the text deeply to figure out what was most important, but the dual-coding theory suggests the process of creating the one-pagers will help them remember the information better.

Another great use for one-pagers is to keep students focused while absorbing media. When students are watching a film, listening to a podcast, or even attending an assembly with a guest speaker, they can be creating one-pagers as they listen, a kind of formalized version of sketchnotes.

Simple Steps for One-Pager Success

Whenever you’re considering your options for assessment, throw one-pagers into the mix. The steps below should help you in creating an assignment for which every student has a roadmap to success.

1.    Choose the elements you want your students to put onto their one-pagers. For example, quotations, key themes, literary elements, discussion of style, important characters or dates, connections to other disciplines, connections to their lives, connections to modern culture.

2.    Create a layout using the shapes tool in PowerPoint or something similar (or grab a free set of templates here or here ).

3.    Connect your instructions to your layout. Make it clear which elements should go in which area of your template.

4.    Create a simple rubric with the key categories you want your students to succeed with. With literary one-pagers, I use “Textual Analysis,” “Required Elements,” and “Thoroughness.”

5. As you introduce the assignment, show students some examples of one-pagers to give them a sense for how they might proceed.

6.    Give students time to work on their one-pagers in class so they can ask you questions. Consider providing some artistic materials if you can, or inviting students to bring them in. You can always let them complete the work at home if necessary.

7.    Do a gallery walk of the one-pagers before you collect them, or have them present to each other in small groups. The students will learn a lot from seeing each other’s representations.

8.    Create a display after you grade the one-pagers with your rubric.

You can find more of Betsy’s great ideas on her website, Spark Creativity .

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57 Comments

Using this for assessment is also a great idea to provide an idea of student learning. Can you comment on how you use these for assessment and how you assess the one-pagers? Thanks!

Hi Kim, I think one-pagers make a great closing assessment for many units. They provide a chance for kids to really sum up everything they’ve learned, whether it’s from a novel, a series of poems, a part of history, etc. I think it helps a lot to grade them from a clear rubric – if you download my free set of templates, it includes the rubric I designed. You might want to grab it, just to help you design your own if you prefer. Hope this helps! Betsy

i think the students really help between to encourage other students to be creative and loyal to others and make up your own ideas.

Can you share a link to your rubric templates?

Hi Tish, you can go to A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers and find the links to the rubrics. If you look at the captions under the images, there’s a link to download them directly. Hope this helps!

I assess one-pagers against our education department’s rubric for written work – we have one for personal response (ideas + presentation) and another, more elaborate one for essays (content + support + form/structure + choices + correctness). It transfers nicely to one-pagers, and provides enough buffer for the kids who fear the artistic components. Here are our rubrics: https://www.alberta.ca/assets/documents/edc-2019-2020-ela30-1-scoring-guide.pdf

Hi there! This is awesome! Do you have any samples or formats for a math class? Algebra 1 and Geometry? I can see this more so with geometry since there’s lots of shapes and visuals. Thanks for your help and input!

I had students make a math one (I teach 6th grade) as a 2nd semester review. They had to include 3 things from each unit from that semester. Since we had 5 units, they broke the paper up into 5 sections.

Hi Brittany, That sounds like a wonderful review! Did you encourage them to bring in some visuals and color to help bring the concepts to life? I hope it went well! Betsy

Hi Janice, I’m afraid I don’t have any examples for math, but I think it would work very similarly. I would suggest template sections on main ideas from the unit, illustrations of the main ideas, connections to students’ own lives and the modern world, connections to other math concepts, etc. I hope that’s helpful! Betsy

I love this idea! I’m wondering how to tweak it to use in our math classrooms. Time to start experimenting. Thank you for this!

This is so helpful. I am a math teacher and a mother. My teenage son would come to a screeching halt whenever he had to generate a visual representation, because he dd not know how. I finally convinced him that, since the teacher had not *taught* him any art, and would not be *assessing* him on the artistic merit of his work, that, for instance, tracing was an ok thing to do. We expect kids to “do art” when they have not been taught how to, and some of them are not in a position (for whatever reason) to spontaneously “do art.” Why is this? (BTW, I hold a BFA.)

Hi Johanna, I hear you! It’s sad for me how little artistic outlet our students get these days, if they don’t choose to follow it on their own. It’s one reason I love this type of assignment, that can let those who flourish with art fly, and provide some reasonable small steps for those who feel intimidated by it. I’m glad you found these ideas helpful! Betsy

I’ve been hearing about these for a while! So glad to see this break down of the activity. I think creating templates is such a wonderful idea to help those students who struggle to see themselves as creative. I had my writing students create infographics this past semester, and showing them all the templates on canva really helped them feel more comfortable with creating their own examples of the genre. I’m definitely going to give this activity a try, potentially as a shareable attachment to their short autobiographies at the beginning of the semester. Thanks for the idea!

Erika, I’m so glad you find the template idea helpful! I couldn’t agree with you more about how helpful it is to share some structure ideas when approaching a design task – I love Canva too. I’ve seen some great results with one-pagers reflecting kids’ own lives, so I hope the autobiographical one-pagers will turn out well for you!

Another way to get around the “art” issue, is to use digital templates online such as the pre-set templates available on platforms like Pictochart, or create your own to share and use within Google Classroom. Encourage students to use free graphics from Copyright Commons approved sites, create comic strips to import from tools such as Pixton, etc. Another way to increase student engagement and engage in multimodal meaning making…

What great ideas! I love giving kids the option to go digital if they feel comfortable in that design space, and these are a lot of wonderful specific options. Thanks!

I teach high school physics. I can think of ways for astronomy and earth science but what of Newton’s laws or projectile motion. A section for equations. A definition perhaps. What else? Any suggestions?

What about sections that illustrate some of the principals, and a section that shows examples of practical applications of the scientific laws in students’ own lives?

I’m a science teacher, too. I know someone who assigned “Newtoons”, where kids had to think of a real world example and apply Newton’s laws to it in the form of a cartoon. Perhaps that could be incorporated into a one pager?

I think I will check out Newtoons

I would love some advice on how to use this with college math students.

Hi Lauren, I think it can be adapted to math with pretty similar template sections. You could have sections for main concepts, key equations, connections to other math or science concepts, connections to the real world, etc. And throughout, you could encourage students to create visuals that demonstrate the information to go with their text. I hope that’s helpful! Betsy

I went digital with one pagers this spring. Students used Adobe Spark to create and published on a class Padlet. Voila! No art supplies needed (and by May, few are to be had!).

Digital is a great option for one-pagers! Canva would be another fun place to experiment for those without access to Spark.

One other alternative is to pair up two students for the one-pager. One student could be more artistic/visual and the other more textual. Such a pair would have to learn to cooperate, communicate, and build on each other’s strengths. The process could be just as important as the product. Alternatively, each person in the pair could separately come up with various parts of the design. They would then meet to choose which elements to include or re-design to make the one-pager.

Tim, This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing.

Hi, I love having students gallery Walk their one pagers, but not sure what sort of accountability piece to have students complete as they do the gallery Walk and examine each other’s works. Any suggestions would be great!

Hi Courtney, I may have some suggestions for you for this. When my students do gallery walks, they usually complete a graphic organizer that sits with the work of each author. There are two forms I like to use: the Glows and Grows and the TAG sheet. The format is up to you but it can be as simple as a 2- or 3-column table on a page. The Glows and Grows is just two categories: One glow telling what the author did well, and one grow telling what they can do to make their work even better. The TAG sheet is similar but takes it one step further. T- Tell something you liked, A- Ask a question, G- Give a suggestion. I find that both these tools help students recognize good practices in their work of their peers, help them to spot errors that they might want to avoid, and give solid feedback that they respect because it’s coming from their peers. Hope you find this helpful!

What a cool way to let each student play to their own strengths. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this simple break down. I do a lot of writing and I’d like my students to be more reflective of what they learn from each assignment, particularly when we address a new style of writing. Any suggestions on how to use this with writing?

Hi Lauren, There are a few solid ways to use one-pagers around writing. One is to use it as an argument writing activity, or pre-writing. You can create a template where there are places for main ideas, counterarguments, quotations, and a thesis, all to be shared through both text and imagery. Another option would be to get meta and create a one-pager that is actually about the type of writing the student has just tried out and reflects the work they did and what they need to improve. With this type of template, you could create space for the main structures of the writing, what the student excelled at, and what they need to work on for the next iteration. Again, all to be shared through both text and imagery. Yet one more option would be to create a series of mini-one-pagers throughout the year that reflect writing type. So you could teach them the structures of different types of writing and have them create small illustrated versions to put together as a guide for themselves moving forwards. At the end of the year, they’d have a little book illustrating argument writing, opinion writing, compare and contrast, etc. Hope those ideas help! Betsy

I love one pagers and have used them for the last few years both with and without the template. I also taught my students how to make an infographic this year using Canva and they loved it. I think next year, I will combine the two and have them make their one-pager electronically so that both the artistic kids and the non-art lovers can be equally successful.

I have been doing projects similar to these for many years:))) Love the way you broke the ideas into steps and defined the process. Templates are great!!!!

I provide the option of collaging from magazines for my students who see themselves as less artistically inclined. They can do just collage or combine collage elements with some of their own drawings. I find this makes them feel less insecure about their drawing abilities. An unintended bonus is that some students have realized that they can be artistic without having to put pencil or paint to paper.

Love this idea of a collage for an option! I am trying one pagers this year in history to review units prior to quizzes and tests.

Love these. I have often used the Frayer model – with adaptions- for math and science concepts and or just terminology.

I used One-Pagers with my AP Human students as an end of year review. Students had to do one One-Pager per chapter. My students told me this was the best review and the most enjoyable work they did all year. They really felt this prepared them for the AP exam. Even the non-artistic students did a beautiful job!

I am using this as a project for a movie we’re watching. I’m allowing them to utilize the template or free-style, as I have quite the range of skill and anxiety in my class. Thank you for sharing.

Vickie, We are glad to hear that you’re planning to use one-pagers in your class. Let us know how it goes with your students.

How do you encourage students to use images? In providing a checklist of items I wanted students to include, somehow the One-Pagers my students recently completed for social studies included mostly text. Do I also require a certain number of images? amount of color? When I used One-Pagers last year, they were much more successful. I don’t recall how my prompt was different. I use your marvelous templates (thank you) and examples (thank you again) and the directions that identifying specific information needs to be considered. What is missing? Why aren’t the images a focus? How might I change my prompt.

With appreciation, Lisa

Hello! What is the research behind one-pagers? I would like to incorporate this method into my classroom.

This is wonderful, and it’s exactly what my students need! I’ve wanted to incorporate one-pagers into our units, but my anti-art, special ed students have balked at the idea. Thanks for sharing these templates!

Stacy, We are glad that this is exactly what you needed for your students!

I agree with all of you

I love this concept of a one pager to summarize a lesson. I teach kindergarten and can see how the students can use this technique to introduce themselves to the class.

I have never heard of the concept of using one-pagers in a classroom, though I can vaguely remember doing something very similar in a high school English class. After reading this blog post and listening to the interview, I am very excited to work this into a lesson plan that I am currently working on! Thank you for the tips and information on how to do these correctly.

I’ve tried to incorporate one pagers in my high school history classes but have struggled with how to use them effectively. The students were often intimidated or overwhelmed and the lessons seemed to flop every time. Thank you for the walk through of your process and templates. My attempts were missing the structure/parameters my students needed to be successful. I’m excited to tweak my lessons for next year and use the strategies you discussed.

Does anyone know of research related to using digital tools to write and draw and does this help or hinder learning?

Hello there. I am 14 years old. i need some help unfortunately with completing a one pager for school online. Do you know where I could go?

– Bella

Hey Isabella,

We’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble with this. Our advise is to reach out to your teacher or classmates – they should be able to help you. Good luck!

HI! Just wanted to give you a heads up that the AVID link at the beginning of the post is not working–it routed me to website that looked like a professional soccer club. I am not sure which one because the website is in Chinese, or Korean, or Japanese, or some other language I don’t know well enough to recognize! Thanks!

Hey Kelly, Thanks so much for the heads up! The link has been updated.

hey kelly , thanks so much for the heads up and thanks for everything.# love it give you the deets.

This will be my first use of a one-pager. Your information will be most valuable as I present it to the students..

This is an amazing idea! As I was reading my brain was coming up with all kinds of way I could adapt this further for Special Education when some students needs a different way to express what they’ve learned throughout a unit. I feel like so many people shy away from artistic projects so that they don’t pressure those “less artistic” students when they should be supporting their creative processes by making these projects more accessible. Wonderful read.

Hi Lauren, There are a few solid ways to use one-pagers around writing. One is to use it as an argument writing activity, or pre-writing. You can create a template where there are places for main ideas, counterarguments, quotations, and a thesis, all to be shared through both text and imagery. Another option would be to get meta and create a one-pager that is actually about the type of writing the student has just tried out and reflects the work they did and what they need to improve. With this type of template, you could create space for the main structures of the writing, what the student excelled at, and what they need to work on for the next iteration. Again, all to be shared through both text and imagery. Yet one more option would be to create a series of mini-one-pagers throughout the year that reflect writing type. So you could teach them the structures of different types of writing and have them create small illustrated versions to put together as a guide for themselves moving forwards. At the end of the year, they’d have a little book illustrating argument writing, opinion writing, compare and contrast, etc. Hope those ideas help! Betsy

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How to Create a One-Pager: A Guide for Our End-of-Semester Challenge

Tips, links and encouragement for expressing yourself creatively on the Times topic of your choice.

By Katherine Schulten

Now updated for 2023-24, with last year’s winners as mentor texts.

Are you participating in our one-pager challenge ? If so, you might already know you’re allowed to choose any article, opinion essay , video , graph , photo collection or podcast from The New York Times that was published this year, and that you can respond to it in almost any way you like. All you have to do is show us — via words and images — how you engaged with the ideas and information in the piece.

But where do you begin? Here are some steps you can take to find a meaningful piece, review it carefully and react to it authentically, and then figure out how to create an illustrated one-page response that expresses what you’d most like to say.

Here are the steps:

1. choose something from the new york times., 2. make notes about your thoughts and reactions., 3. decide what you want to say., 4. check out some teen-created examples., 5. design your one-pager..

If your family, school or local library has a subscription to The Times, whether print or digital, you might begin by exploring and saving the stories that jump out at you. Here is a guide we created in 2020, “ 21 Things Teenagers Can Do With a New York Times Subscription ,” that can offer ideas and introduce you to corners of nytimes.com that you might not know existed.

If you don’t have a subscription, you can explore via The Learning Network, since we publish many daily features, all of which link to free Times content. (Keep in mind that you need to choose something published in 2023 or early 2024 if you are participating in our challenge, which runs from Dec. 6 to Jan. 10.)

Here are some options:

We have created a special collection just for this contest. Our latest edition of Teenagers in The Times contains over 75 links to articles that published this fall about young athletes, artists, activists and more. There is something on the list for everyone.

Search our site, or scroll through its features, looking for topics you care about. For instance, if you start with our writing prompts you’ll find pieces on fandoms , friendship , learning from failure , phones in school , ChatGPT , mental health , gun violence , celebrity relationships and much, much more.

Or, check out our multimedia offerings to find films about the joys and challenges of growing up , stuttering , how to be a good listener , and what it means to be young, Black and queer today . Or, find graphs about football and C.T.E ., electric cars , Spelling Bee words or global temperatures .

Finally, you can take a look at our lesson plans, each of which links to multiple Times pieces on topics like hip-hop history , applying to college in the era of A.I., the Israel-Hamas war , Latino cooking , the child-labor crisis , and what it’s like to be 13 years old today .

Once you find a topic, click in to find the related Times piece. We don’t care what you choose, or whether you loved it or hated it. We care about your engagement with the ideas and information.

So whether you were moved by an article, enlightened by an podcast, irked by an editorial or inspired by a video, find something in The Times that genuinely interests you and explore why, as honestly and originally as you can.

Before you decide what belongs on your one-pager, read, watch or listen to the piece several times. As you go, make notes about your thoughts and reactions.

Our post Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create , published in 2015 back when The Learning Network was a blog, offers many ideas for creative ways to do this, but here are some starting questions:

What do you notice?

What do you wonder?

What words, lines or details jump out at you? Why?

What emotions are you feeling as you explore the text?

How does this text connect to you or to your world?

How does it connect to other things you have read, seen or heard?

What do you admire about this piece? Does it offer you any lessons for something you might want to create?

Is there anything you don’t like about this piece? What and why?

What, if anything, is missing from this piece? Why?

What is your overall reaction to it? Why?

After you’ve noted your first reactions, step back and think about your selection some more. You might discuss it with others, or click on any links within it to read related information. You might follow up on some of the questions it raised for you, or see if other news sources have covered the topic differently. Or, you might focus on how the piece changed your understanding of an issue or idea, and why. What might you do with this new information?

Video from the article, “ TikTok Is Dead (Maybe). Long Live TikTok Dance. ”

Now the creative fun begins. Read over your notes and annotations and decide what is most important or interesting for you to capture about your selection.

Here are two ways to think about what belongs on your one-pager.

Pick responses that all follow a theme:

Let’s say you’re a video game fanatic and skimmed The Times looking for news you could use. Maybe you read “ 12 Video Games Releasing This Fall ” and learned about some you had never heard of — or remembered some of your favorite games of the past. Or, maybe you were fascinated by “ Russia Takes Its Ukraine Information War Into Video Games ” and how propaganda is appearing in Minecraft and other popular games and discussion groups. Perhaps you’ve even started to notice some of that propaganda in the games you play. Or, maybe you’re fascinated by the connection between gaming and A.I., so you devoured this article about how A.I. can help you design your characters . Whichever of these articles you chose, your one pager could focus on what you learned from it, or how it helps you as a player, or what you now understand about how the video game industry is changing.

Or, let’s say you read a Modern Love essay , and most of your responses are about the language you admired, the flashes of humor in the piece, the introduction of words that were new to you, and your observations about the author’s use of point of view. Your one-pager might then be focused on the writer’s craft and what you can learn from it for your own work. You might even try imitating a mentor sentence from the essay in a section of your one-pager.

Or, pick a range of your most interesting, original, insightful or useful responses:

Maybe your responses were all over the place. Maybe you are a TikTok dance enthusiast, so you read the article about the evolution of dance trends on the app, and how influential they’ve been. That might remind you of other TikTok dance videos, past or present — and you might then be able to apply some of what was in the Times piece to those. Maybe you think the Times reporter missed some key information that should have been in the article. Or maybe you clicked on the links in the piece and have been captivated by information about new artists, dance subcultures, or some of the issues around creative crediting that have arisen. Any and all of these thoughts and observations can lead to great responses, and become part of your one-pager.

Take a close look at the image above. It was one of 15 winners of our 2022-23 contest . (You can click to enlarge this image and the three below to help study details.)

“How to Save Yourself From ‘Task Paralysis’” is by Vivian Wang, a 15-year-old from India, who wrote in her accompanying process statement, “My goal was to make my one-pager focused, like an infographic, but with the playful energy of a children’s book.”

Did she succeed? Which elements here are more “infographic” and which are more “children’s book”?

Here are some more things to notice about her work, and some questions for you.

Things to notice: This student chose a piece that was “news she could use” — information applicable to her own life — then she made her thinking about it visible through word and image. She summarized key points from the piece, then applied them to her own struggles, pulling out the sentences and details that she wanted to remember. She illustrated each segment with appealing animal characters that get across the emotions the article explores — worry and confusion, but also relief.

Questions for you: What New York Times pieces would constitute news you could use? Perhaps something from the Health section ? Tips and tricks from the Gameplay section if you enjoy word games? Ideas from the Food section if you cook? How can you both impart what you learned and show how it connects to your own life?

Below, three more of our winners, with their own “Things to notice” and “Questions for you.” But we encourage you to look through all 15 and choose the ones you like best. Then, drill down to try to name exactly what each student did that you admire. Finally, ask yourself questions about how you could borrow those ideas and strategies for your own work.

Things to notice: “How Wild Turkeys Find Love” was one of the few laugh-out-loud submissions we received, and that alone moved it forward in the judging rounds. But look closely, because everything about this submission works, starting with the cleverness of Kylie Doherty’s method. By taking lines from a science article about the mating habits of turkeys and translating them into comic illustrations, this student both surfaced important facts in the article and took the information in an imaginative new direction. Even the “new word I learned” is funny, as is (of course) the related illustration. Note the attention to detail, too, like the hearts and turkey tracks that form the border.

Questions for you: Can you make a comic out of a Times article? As you can see from this one, your drawings don’t have to be elaborate. Try illustrating scenes that express some of your favorite facts from a science, politics, sports or arts-related article. Don’t be afraid to express your sense of humor!

Things to notice: This one-pager about parkour-activists marries the content of the original article and the visual display of that information so perfectly that it’s a pleasure to follow this student's thinking. And yet, as dynamic as the illustrations are, the comments are just as interesting. Throughout, Mythri Margam engages with both philosophical and practical questions about the article, coming to the conclusion that this is a “noble cause.”

Questions for you: Does the article you’ve chosen lend itself to a dramatic visual display? If so, how can you choose a color palette and create illustrations that are equally dramatic and help tell the story for you? As for your written comments, what big-picture questions does the Times piece raise for you? How did you wrestle with them as you read?

Things to notice: This one-pager effectively summarizes a problem and helps us focus on the important questions around it. The illustrations are simple but effective, and show that you don’t have to have spent hours in art classes to express your ideas visually. The use of shape and color alone help our eyes move around the page. But notice that Shannon Hitscherich’s most elaborate comment is about what she feels the Times piece is missing. That’s a reaction our judges especially admire, both because we know it demands close reading, and because it always makes us think.

Questions for you: If you’re unused to expressing yourself visually, we have three questions. 1. What colors and simple shapes might express what you want to say and help your words pop? 2. Do you know another student who can help? You are allowed to work in pairs for this contest. 3. What digital tools can you use? If you look at the full list of last year’s winners, you’ll see that several are created that way. (Just make sure you follow our rules about copyright, and note that we do not allow A.I.-created images.)

Not enough examples? If you’d like to see still more, here are some links to one-pagers from around the web:

NCTE | The Magic of One-Pagers

Cult of Pedagogy | A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers

Spark Creativity | One-Pagers Roundup: Examples to Inspire

We Are Teachers | 20 One-Pager Examples, Plus Advice for Using Them With Your Students

Finally, below is a slide show of fun one-pagers made in 2022 by students at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Teachers there regularly bring their students to respond to our writing prompts, so we emailed the school that fall and asked them to do us a favor. We wanted a few teenagers to try our challenge before we made the first one public, and we wondered if any students there might volunteer. A few who had never done a one-pager before raised their hands, and, though their teachers offered this as an optional final assignment, they did not otherwise guide it. We love all the different directions these students’ work took. Which inspire you most? Why?

Now that you have seen several examples, you’re ready to create your own. You are welcome to work with a partner, but each of you can submit only once.

As you’ve seen from the examples in Step 4, you do not have to have a background in art to make an excellent one-pager. Stick figures, simple graphics and the use of color can do all the visual work needed to highlight your thoughts. What we’ll be focusing on is your engagement with the ideas and information in the text. Use the space on your page to make visible what happened to you as you engaged with your selection and made meaning from it.

Here are a few questions to help you plan:

How can you divide up your page to accommodate everything you want to say?

How can you use elements of design like color, shape and line to emphasize your ideas?

Will you have one central illustration, or several smaller ones?

How can you make the most of space like the borders of the page, but use it in such a way that your work is still legible?

How does this one-pager trace your thinking about the topic and show highlights from it? How does it show connections between those ideas?

Good luck, and remember to submit by Jan. 10, 2024. We can’t wait to see what you make!

The images for the photo collage in this post all come from Times pieces from this year. Photo credits (from left to right): Top row : Eric Hartline/USA Today Sports, via Reuters Con; Illustration by Nicolás Ortega, photograph by Getty Images; Charlie Riedel/Associated Press; Ritchie B Tongo/EPA, via Shutterstock; Carmen Abd Ali for The New York Times; Rose Wong. Middle row: Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times; NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI); Warner Bros.; Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times. Bottom row: Simon Bailly/Sepia; Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times; Illustration by Jon Key; Bryan Anselm for The New York Times; Erin Schaff for The New York Times; Amy Lombard for The New York Times.

Katherine Schulten has been a Learning Network editor since 2006. Before that, she spent 19 years in New York City public schools as an English teacher, school-newspaper adviser and literacy coach. More about Katherine Schulten

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20 One-Pager Examples, Plus Advice for Using Them With Your Students

A single page of notes can be a real game-changer.

One-pagers and Sketchnotes have become incredibly popular in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Rather than just jotting down words on a page, students use one-pagers to visually represent key points and takeaways. They’re fun to create and have a real impact on memory and comprehension. Here’s how to use them, plus lots of terrific one-pager examples to inspire you and your students.

What Are One-Pagers?

Source: Chomping at the Lit

One-pagers invite students to think deeply about a text and produce a single page to represent its most important aspects. They usually include some images, doodles, or other graphic elements, giving them the alternate name Sketchnotes . One-pagers are often full of color and may include more images than words, depending on the student. They’re most commonly used in ELA classrooms but can be helpful in other subjects too.

This note-taking concept was pioneered by AVID , a group that seeks to prepare all students for college. As one-pagers caught on, teachers found that students who used one-pagers made a deeper connection to the text and had better retention of key concepts. AVID’s guidelines encourage students to share their one-pagers with one another, helping to inspire learning in a variety of visual ways.

How To Get Started With One-Pagers

Source: Spark Creativity

One problem teachers face when encouraging kids to use one-pagers is that some students don’t feel “artistic” enough. They may also not know where to start. When teaching kids to use Sketchnote one-pagers, provide more direction at first. Start by showing kids one-pager examples (see below). Ask what they notice about these Sketchnotes. Some characteristics they might note:

• The information and images fill the whole page.
• They’re colorful and full of illustrations.
• The illustrations don’t need to be expert, they just help emphasize a connection.
• Words are carefully chosen to highlight key concepts.

Some kids will take the idea and run with it right off the bat. Others will need a little more help. In this case, offering one-pager templates like these from Spark Creativity can really help.

You can also share these specific directions from AVID , which provide guidance on what to include on each page. Giving students a clear list of what to cover will increase confidence and free them up to be creative. For example, in English Language Arts, you might ask students to:

• Sketch one visual symbol that represents the text’s main theme.
• Write out two quotations that show the author’s style.
• Include a sketch and a sentence representing the setting.
• Make connections between the text and current events using sketches and text.
• Examine one or two main characters and their development.
• Identify three symbols through sketches or text.
• Include a statement about one thing they connected with in the reading.

One-Pager Examples and Ideas

Here are some outstanding one-pager examples on a variety of texts and topics. Note the incredible array of styles, which you can use to remind kids that there’s no one right way to use Sketchnotes. Encourage them to be creative!

Simple DNA One-Pager

Source: @sciencelessonsthatrock

We like this one-pager example because it shows students that you don’t need to be an expert artist to create something meaningful.

Poetry One-Pager

Source: @prestoplans

Here’s an example of how a template can provide students with strong guidance to get them started. This one-pager has more words than illustrations, but it’s still colorful and engaging.

Digital One-Pager

Source: @readitwriteitlearnit

One-pagers can go digital too! Try a whiteboard tool like Jamboard to make the process easy.

The Outsiders One-Pagers

Source: @wonderingwithmrswatto, The Outsiders

Source: @wonderingwithmrswatto, Digital The Outsiders

Take a look at these two different one-pager examples, one handwritten and one digital—and both effective!

Symbols One-Pager

Source: @studyallknight

Here’s another terrific way to use a template. Students can sketch the symbol, then add in handwritten notes for more info.

Beowulf One-Pager

Source: @gretazefo

This note-taking option really gives artistic students a chance to shine! Just make sure they add enough information (graphic or text) to help them make connections with what they’ve read.

The Great Gatsby One-Pager

Source: @mrsreganreads

Sketching characters from books can bring them to life for readers. Highlight a few quotes that truly express their personalities.

Power Profiles One-Pager

Source: @laumom

Students can use one-pagers to demonstrate what they know. They make interesting alternatives to essays or book reports.

Because of Winn-Dixie One-Pagers

Source: @enrichingelementary

Note that although each student used the same basic template (hand-drawn too, so don’t worry about making copies!), they each created something different and meaningful to themselves.

Fahrenheit 451 One-Pager

Source: @mudandinkteaching

Encourage students to add at least some images to their Sketchnotes, even if they’re as simple as stick figures or outlines. This engages different parts of the brain than just writing words does, and it deepens recall.

Letter From Birmingham Jail One-Pager

Source: @thehodgenator

Even when writing text, try to use a variety of colors and styles for emphasis. Just shading a background can draw the eye to something important.

Geography One-Pager

Source: @wmscl4

One-pagers are terrific for comparing and contrasting information, like this one comparing how geography affects the lives of people in China and India.

The Running Dream One-Pager

Source: @mayor_james

We love the idea of adding a word cloud to a one-pager! If you’re making a digital version, try these word cloud generators .

Intro One-Pager

Source: @nowsparkcreativity

One-pagers are such a fun way to do a getting-to-know-you activity on the first day of class.

Frayer Model Vocab One-Pager

Source: @missjackiesroom

The Frayer model graphic organizer is a terrific lead-in to more creative one-pagers, and a nice way to get students more comfortable with the format.

Inaugural Address One-Pager

Source: @mrsprzbooks

The main image choice can set the tone for an entire one-pager analysis.

USA One-Pager

Source: Teach With Tina

Don’t be afraid to try one-pagers in any class, for any topic!

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7 One Pager Examples with Ideas and Templates

By Jennifer Gaskin , Oct 11, 2023

The humble one pager has a simple name, but in reality, it’s anything but one dimensional.

That’s because teachers, business owners, sales teams and training managers can all make use of this utility player document.

Let’s learn more about one pagers and explore tips for creating your own, whether it’s to sell your company’s services or help reinforce training materials .

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What is a one pager, what should a one pager include, 7 one pager examples, how to write a one pager.

One pager is a single page of content, most often no larger than a letter- or A4-sized sheet of paper. Because they have such broad uses, though, what’s actually in a one pager will depend on your needs and the purpose of the materials.

In a business context, we most often see one pagers used to summarize the services a company offers. They’re also often used to aid in employee training and development . And that brings us to the overlap between training and education, as a teacher might use a one pager as a learning tool for their students.

(Not sure visual training content works? Let us change your mind.)

The exact content of a one pager will depend on why it’s needed and who’s creating it. I assume you’ve landed here because you’re looking for one pagers related to some aspect of business.

So for now, I’m going to focus on how businesses tend to use one pagers. (I’ll talk more about educational one pagers later.)For a business, a one pager can have pretty much limitless applications. But here are the most successful uses I’ve seen and the types of information you should include in each:

A company one pager is meant to describe what your business does, whether that’s selling goods or providing a service.

For a successful company one pager, all companies should include a few things:

• Mission/values statement
• Services offered
• Value proposition
• Contact information

Many companies use their basic one pager as a sell sheet, particularly if they are known for making one or two main products.

But a sell sheet should include things like:

• Your pricing model
• Project timelines (if applicable)
• Product or service specifications
• Ordering information

Product flyer

A close cousin to a sell sheet, a product flyer is essentially a sell sheet for a particular good or service that you create or sell. What distinguishes them from sell sheets is they focus on a singular good or service rather than all the goods or services your company sells.

Product flyers should have:

• Logo (company and/or product logo, if applicable)
• Photos of your product (or images that represent your services)
• Product specs
• Sale information (if applicable)
• Purchasing information
• Contact information/social media

Investor pitch

If you’re looking for financial backing for your company, you’re probably going to create a pitch deck . But if you distill that information into a single page too, it can help set you apart from other potential investments — it shows you have a firm grasp on your unique value proposition and business plan and you respect the time of those you’re pitching.

Consider including the following in your investor pitch one pager:

• Logo (or the name of your business if you don’t have a logo yet)
• Unique value proposition
• Market analysis and revenue projections
• List of officers and key team members
• Launch timeline
• Fundraising goal

Standard operating procedure

One pagers are incredibly useful when learning how to do something new, whether you’re just starting a job or you’re taking on new responsibilities. Give your employees a leg up by creating standard operating procedure one pagers written tutorials they can refer back to. These types of one pagers can help them commit tasks to memory so they become second-nature.

An SOP one pager should have:

• Description of document’s purpose
• Summary of procedures or specific task
• Policies and procedures necessary to understand task

A training one pager may be quite similar to a standard operating procedure one pager. But it has the specific purpose of ensuring team members know how to tackle a new task, technology or process. Also called job aids , these types of one pagers are closest in purpose to those used for education: their goal is getting information to stick.

The specific content will vary, but generally training one pagers should include:

• Name of task
• List of steps to complete task
• FAQ about task
• Contact information if help is needed

Sales report

One pagers are perfect for summarizing lengthy material. This is why they’re so useful in training materials , which we just explored. But they can also be used to highlight important aspects of broader information or data, such as sales data. Your company may have a seemingly endless number of sales- and revenue-related data points… summarizing it all in a one pager can make the material easier to digest.

Here’s what a sales one pager could include:

• Quarter/annual/fiscal year
• Income and expenses
• Year-over-year change (or month-over-month/quarter-over-quarter)
• Projections
• Return on investment
• Important milestones/events

Project report

What is a one pager for a project? Similar to a sell sheet or product flyer, a project report one pager summarizes key information about an ongoing (or upcoming) project. One pagers are excellent tools for keeping your team on track during any project.

Include things like:

• Images of project (if applicable)
• Timeline, including noting if team is falling behind
• Projected new timeline (if applicable)
• Key team members

Now that we’ve explored the different business and training applications of one pagers, let’s take a look at some examples — both inside and outside of a corporate context.

Business one pager s

Here are some general business one pager examples:

This project one pager focuses on a product launch. Note how different departments are color-coded. This allows team members to see what areas they’re responsible for at a glance.

Use your product flyer, sell sheet or even investor pitch one pager to compare your product or service to a chief competitor with a comparison one pager. Seeing key specs side-by-side can really make your products stand out.

Showcase the variety of products or service your company offers with this product flyer one pager template. Make sure you have high-quality photos (or use icons and graphics to represent your services).

Take a page (ahem, one page) from this real estate sales flyer for your next sell sheet. Summarize key points in the bulleted list and highlight the contact information for your sales team.

Give potential customers a 35,000-foot view of your business by creating a company one pager using a template like this one. Include your logo, hours, contact information, website and address to give the reader all the most important details.

Training and development one pager s

Ensuring team members have the skills they need and follow the right procedures is an ideal use for one pagers in a business of any size. Here are a few examples and templates to get you started:

While this one pager was designed to keep track of equipment, you could easily modify it to make sure other procedures — particularly ones you’ve recently put in place — are followed. Research has shown that writing things on paper (or a tablet) can improve information retention, so your training and development one pagers should be printer-friendly.

Create individualized learning and development plans for your employees with this template. Modify it to list things like courses they’ll complete, certifications they can earn or new tasks they want to take on.

Keep track of training and development schedules with a one pager that lists each person’s sessions and how long they’ll last.

Learning and development in a professional setting can sometimes feel isolating, particularly if team members are on their own throughout the training process. But by creating a training one pager like this, the whole team can see where their peers stand and provide moral support and motivation.

Use a flyer design like this to make sure everyone at your company knows that learning and development opportunities are available — whether you offer them in-house or provide outside tools.

Education one pager s

I’m not a teacher, but I know one pagers are also quite popular in education, from elementary school to college. While they’re similar in some ways to those used in business, they typically vary in one big way: students make them, rather than teachers.

An education one pager is a document that a student creates to show what they’ve learned. They can be used in place of tests or quizzes or as a companion to a more traditional written assignment. They often include drawings or other artistic depictions (here are some cool examples of creative one pagers made by students ).

Project one pagers

A project one-pager provides a high-level overview of a specific project and is designed to capture the key details of the project.

Want to make sure everyone’s on the same page for your upcoming project? A project one pager is just what you need. It squeezes all the important bits onto a single page – perfect for those who want to get the gist without getting overwhelmed.

If you’ve got stakeholders in the mix who are a bit crunched for time and not keen on diving into the nitty-gritty project docs, I’ve got your back. Check out this example of a project one-pager to make sure you catch all the important stuff.

You can also use a project one pager to help divide job scope by clearly outlining responsibilities and tasks for each team member or department. It’s like a simple guide that keeps things organized and everyone in check.

Company one pagers

A company one-pager is a brief document that gives a snapshot of essential information about your company.

It’s like the quick intro to your business – from what the company does to its mission and a glimpse of its achievements. The one-pager is the go-to cheat sheet for anyone wanting to understand your business in a nutshell.

Consider putting together a company one-pager to share what services you offer. It’s a simple way to highlight what makes your business unique and help clients or partners understand how your services differ from competitors.

Product one pagers

Ever feel like explaining your product is like untangling a knot of spaghetti? Imagine a concise, one-page document summarizing your product’s magic: what it does, who it helps and why it’s special.

And that, is exactly why you need a product one pager.

Instead of sifting through loads of info, your customers get a quick overview of what the product is and why they might be interested – all neatly packaged in one page. It’s like the go-to guide for products, keeping things straightforward and easy to grasp.

You’re not just limited to selling stuff—it could be a service or, in this case, even a cool business startup course!

Alternatively, you can craft a product launch one-pager to outline your marketing strategy and organize the launch of your new product.

Personal one pagers

Personal one-pagers are documents that provide a snapshot of an individual’s key details, achievements, and skills.

They are similar to resumes but are typically more visually appealing and designed to give a quick overview of a person’s professional background, expertise and personal brand. Personal one-pagers can be used in job applications, networking events or as part of a personal branding strategy.

Imagine it as a sort of personalized business card, but way more fun. It’s your chance to move beyond the usual “hi, I do X” and highlight what makes you, well, you.

If you’re a freelancer or contractor, think of personal one-pagers as a handy way to share what you’re good at, highlight past projects, and let them know about the services you offer. Just like this example here:

The goal of a one-pager is to quickly and effectively communicate your message, so brevity and clarity are essential. You want the reader to grasp the key points in a matter of seconds.

Here’s a general outline for creating a one-pager:

• Header: Start with a clear and eye-catching title at the top of the page and include your name or the name of your organization.
• Introduction: Provide a brief introductory paragraph or a few sentences that explain the purpose and context of the one-pager.
• Problem statement or opportunity: Clearly state the problem you’re addressing or the opportunity you’re seizing. This is the “why” of your project.
• Solution or idea: Present your solution, idea or project in a concise manner. Explain how it addresses the problem or leverages the opportunity.
• Key benefits: Highlight the key benefits or advantages of your solution. This can include things like cost savings, increased efficiency or market advantages.
• Key features or components: List the most important features, components or elements of your project or product. Bullet points work well for this section.
• Target audience: Describe the target audience or customers for your project. Who will benefit from it, and who is it designed for?
• Market opportunity (if applicable): If your one-pager is for a business idea or startup, provide some information about the market opportunity, such as size, growth,and trends.
• Implementation plan or timeline: If relevant, outline the steps or timeline for implementing your project. This can include key milestones or phases.
• Call to action: Conclude with a clear call to action. What do you want the reader to do next? Contact you, invest, or take some other specific action?
• Contact information: Provide your contact information, including email, phone number and any relevant social media or website links.
• Visual elements (optional): Consider including visuals such as charts, graphs, images or infographics to make your one-pager more engaging and informative.
• Formatting and design: Keep the layout clean and easy to read. Use a legible font, appropriate font size and simple colors. Ensure that the document is well-organized.
• Proofread and edit: Carefully proofread your one-pager for spelling and grammar errors. Ensure that it conveys your message clearly and concisely.
• Review and feedback: Before finalizing your one-pager, have someone else review it to get feedback and make improvements.

One-pagers excel in business communication with their compact size and versatility

As we’ve explored, you can create a one pager for your business that highlights your services, convinces an investor to give you money or helps keep your team’s skills sharp.

Whether you’re an executive or a learning and development professional, you can create all of these one pagers and more with Venngage for Business.

Simply sign up for a free account , choose a template from our library of professionally designed options and create your own in just a few clicks!

How to Write a One-Pager: A Handy Guide

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Meredith Sell

What’s harder than writing long? Writing short. And if you’re trying to write a one-pager, you know this from experience.

It’s not easy to quickly sum up a company or its offerings in a digestible way for readers who’ve never heard of the company before. It’s not easy to take overwritten corporate language and trim it into accessible, punchy copy that catches attention and clearly communicates its point.

It’s not easy, but someone has to do it. And that someone is you.

So where do you even start with writing a one-pager? Do you envision its design and craft the content with that in mind? Do you write long and, over multiple iterations, trim it down shorter and shorter, until it fits on a standard sheet of letterhead? Is there anything special about one-pagers that you should know before you get started?

If you’re asking a version of any of these questions, you’ve landed on the right blog. Here, we cover the different elements that go into a one-pager, how to approach the writing process, and lessons you can take from real one-pagers out in the wild.

To begin, let’s make sure we’re on, well, the same page.

What Is a One-Pager?

One-pagers. One-sheets. Fliers. Handouts. Any of these terms might be used to refer to a single-page printout that is used by a company for any number of purposes.

In business, one-pagers are often used as sales and marketing tools, but they can also be used internally to inform staff of product updates, new offerings, recent report findings, or new procedures.

Sales and marketing one-pagers are typically written to quickly introduce prospects to a company, product, or service. Salespeople or marketers may distribute them at conferences or digitally as PDFs.

A one-pager’s audience is based on the one-pager’s goal:

• Is the one-pager aiming to secure investors for a new startup? Those investors are the target audience.
• Is the one-pager part of a campaign to increase sales of a particular product? The prospective customer is the audience.
• Is the one-pager supposed to give staff a well-rounded understanding of a new offering? You’ll be writing to those staff , whether salespeople, marketers, or other roles.
• Does the one-pager provide an update on profit-and-loss, new product development, or some type of internal report to higher ups? Those executives or managers are the target audience.

The myriad purposes of a one-pager mean they can be written in a variety of ways, but they always have one thing in common: they don’t take up more than a single page. That single page may be printed on front and back, but there’s only one sheet, not staples, no folds. This makes one-pagers a cost-effective, easy-to-transport piece of marketing collateral — perfect for your traveling sales team.

Are there one-pagers outside of the business world?

Yes. Educators may assign students to write up “one-pagers” — single-page reports on a book or subject — as a homework assignment. In certain industries like screenwriting, individuals create one-pagers to introduce themselves and their work. In both of these cases, the written product is contained on a single sheet of paper, but these types of one-pagers are distinct from what’s used in business.

This article is about one-pagers for business.

The Writing Process: From 60 to One.

Don’t let the length deceive you. Writing a single (designed) page of snappy, to-the-point copy isn’t as easy as firing up Google Docs and pouring your heart into 500 words (if that’s even easy). 

Every well-crafted one-pager starts with more information than can possibly fit on a single page. It’s up to the writer to prioritize that information, eliminate what the audience doesn’t need, and shape the rest into coherent, digestible bites.

This multi-step process will help you pen a one-pager out of a ream — or maybe just 60 pages — of notes.

1. Define the purpose/goal.

You’ve been tasked with writing this particular one-pager for a reason, so take the time to clarify and understand that reason. 

• Will the one-pager be used as training material for new staff? 
• Does it school existing staff on a new product — or new features that have been added to an existing product?
• Will the piece summarize internal research or report findings for mid-level managers to help them better support their team?
• Is it summing up management changes and their effect on productivity for C-suite executives?
• Does it highlight a brand-new service for new or existing customers?
• Will it be in a booth at an upcoming industry conference, where potential partners or customers will be in attendance?

Speak with the person who decided a one-pager was needed and ask questions to clarify what they want to use the one-pager for. What purpose do they see it serving? What step do they want their audience to take after reading the one-pager?

Once you have a clear idea of the one-pager’s goal, you’re ready for step 2.

2. Define the audience.

As discussed earlier, the audience is directly related to the one-pager’s goal. If you understand the goal, you should know — at least broadly — who the audience is.

But knowing the basic audience identity isn’t quite enough. You also need to know:

• How familiar the audience is with the one-pager’s subject matter
• If they have an existing relationship with the company/product/service/etc.
• Why they might be interested in the company/product/service/etc.
• What they need to know about the subject matter in order to take the next step
• What their pain points or concerns are that the company/product/service addresses

Let’s say you’re writing a one-pager about a new attachment for a KitchenAid mixer. You’d want to consider these specific questions:

• Does my audience already own a KitchenAid mixer? Or is this contraption a way to sell them on the mixer as well?
• What is the baking/mixing problem that this new attachment solves? What sort of things does the audience make that brings them up against this problem?
• Are these advanced bakers who use a mixer in an industrial kitchen? Or are these hobby bakers who mainly bake for their friends and family at home?

All of these questions will help you better understand your audience, and ultimately write to them in a compelling way.

3. Gather information.

You’ve already gathered a bit of information about the one-pager and its audience. Now you need to gather information about the one-pager’s subject matter.

Your information-gathering process should be guided by what you know about the one-pager’s purpose and audience, but it’s better to cast a wide net and gather as much information as possible than to be too narrow in your research.

Here are a few lists to guide you:

Company One-Pager

Introduces investors to the company, its mission, the problems it seeks to solve, and its products and services from a bird’s-eye view.

• Any existing marketing collateral for the company
• About page copy from the website (and any notes from when that copy was being crafted)
• Interviews with executives/founders about why they started the company, what they’re seeking to accomplish
• Relevant facts and statistics about the company’s industry, the gaps it intends to fill
• Existing mission/value statements
• Product/services pages from the website (and any notes)

Product/Services One-Pager

For external sales and marketing use, introduces prospective customers to the product/services.

• Any existing marketing collateral for the product/services
• Information on competitor product/services to help identify differentiators
• Relevant facts and statistics about the industry, gaps filled by product/services
• Customer pain points and how the product/services address them

Report Fact Sheet

Summarizes major findings of internal reports for higher-ups.

• Full report
• Documentation on why the report was conducted, why it was needed
• Interviews with report researchers and analysts for further insight on major findings

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Gather as many existing materials as possible to inform your one-pager. Then supplement those with live interviews to provide more context, address any gaps, answer your lingering questions, and make sure you’ve properly understood the other materials.

Chances are, your one-pager is a short version of something that already exists, so make sure  you closely read whatever that is — whether it’s a website, single webpage, lengthy report, or something else.

4. Boil it down.

Now that you’re positively overloaded with information, it’s time to start cutting things out and summarizing what’s important. Whether you have 5 pages of notes or 10 or 60, you need to finish with a single page — max 1.5 pages — of concise copy. 

What does the audience need to know? What are the most important and most compelling pieces of information based on your audience’s interests and needs?

Use your understanding of your audience and the one-pager’s goal to cut out the information you don’t need. Then, make a list of the information you absolutely do need.  

Start playing with how you can convey that information in concise, direct ways. Maybe some facts can be grouped together or described with a single statement. Others may need to stand on their own.

Pro Tip: Once you’ve written out some of the facts and narrative of your one-pager, plug the content into the Wordtune Editor and use the rewrite or tighten functions to cut the fluff.

5. Determine the structure.

There’s a lot of room for variation and creativity in one-pagers, but your structure should be determined — first and foremost — by your audience’s needs and your one-pager’s goal. 

You’ll want foundational information to be prominently displayed, with supportive facts and fleshed out narrative falling below in the design hierarchy.

Go through your list of needed information and arrange it according to importance. Use that list to sketch an outline. You can start thinking about design at this step as well.

Here’s a working outline for example:

Company Name

[basic description of company, highlighting the needs it’s meeting locally] 

• Bullet points: Year-over-year growth in geographic reach, profitability, and overall customer base
• Quote from positive review
• Graphic illustrating number of repeat customers
• Statement about how we show up for our customers
• Call to action
• Website & contact info

6. Go beyond sentences.

The best one-pagers utilize design and copywriting in tandem to make an engaging, interesting piece. Instead of being filled with text from top to bottom, you’ll want your one-pager to have a mix of narrative and short-form copy.

Here are a few different types of content you can play with:

• Bullet points
• Mini infographics
• Pull quotes
• Headings/subheadings
• FAQs/Q&A
• Annotated illustrations (especially helpful for product one-pagers)

As you sort through your info list, brainstorm the best ways to convey each piece of information. Could multiple facts be combined into a single statement or claim? Could some be represented through a designed infographic section? What approach will make the most sense to your audience while also engaging their attention?

Pro Tip: Wordtune Editor can help you find alternate phrasings to unnecessarily long copy. Just highlight the text you want to refine and click on the “shorten” arrows.

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Night One Pager: Assigning a One-Pager Project as a Culminating Project

I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!

To make this one pager project rigorous, I required my students to include multiple MLA-cited quotations with a literary analysis explanation. These are skills my students have learned and practiced all year long, so it was a way for me to assess that skill. I also wanted to give my students an opportunity to express their creativity, and it came through. In considering all of these elements, the one pager was the perfect culminating activity for Night!

What is a One Pager?

A one pager is a classroom assignment, activity, or assessment where students place all of their work on one page. With a one pager, students combine visual and text elements to demonstrate a thematic and symbolic meaning of a text. A one pager can include quotes from a text, quote analysis, critical thinking questions and answers, and visual representations of a setting, symbol, or character.

Furthermore, the one pager is also extremely versatile, and teachers can tailor it to fit their needs. You can read more about the one pager, sketch notes, and mind maps in this blog about coloring in the secondary ELA classroom .

Assigning a One Pager Project as a Culminating Activity for Night

For the actual assignment, I created a one-pager choice board that is similar that requires students to connect four elements. Every student had to complete the quotes, questions, and images element of the project. From there, students had their choice of four different items they could include: a connection to a song, a timeline, a setting, or a figurative language option. By providing students with a choice, they feel like they have more say with their work.

I reviewed the assignment with my students, explained my expectations, passed out the handout (which was printed double-sided with the instructions on the front and the brainstorming organizer and checklist on the back), and showed my students some examples. Keep reading the post. You can sign-up for my emails to receive a free Google Docs copy of this assignment which includes the assignment, checklist, planning sheet, and a rubric.

On the day projects were due, I provided my students with an opportunity to present their one-page to class. I did this as an extra-credit option. For each student who volunteered to present their project, I gave them an extra 5 points on their project).

The Night One-Pager was an enjoyable project for my students, and it was the perfect final project to assign at the end of the school year.

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What is a one pager assignment? Easy tips for newbs

by mindroar | Aug 14, 2023 | blog | 0 comments

Before we get started explaining one pager ideas, let’s take answer the first question you might have, what is a one pager assignment? (Just in case you are unfamiliar or need to be convinced that they’re a great teaching and learning tool).

What is a one pager assignment?

A one pager assignment is an assignment where all of the parts of the task are completed one page.

One pager projects can take many different forms. It might be something like a comic book strip ( click here for a free template ), or it could be a cause-effect chart. 

It could be a mind map. Or it could be a visual note taking worksheet that covers quotes and themes and characters.

The point of a one pager project is that the whole task can fit on one page. 

Does this mean that a one pager assignment is not rigorous? 

Short answer, no. A one pager project can be as rigorous as an essay or other extended piece of writing.

It might not take as long to complete as an essay or other extended piece of writing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not as rigorous.

The level of rigor on the one pager assignment will depend on how you structure the task. If you get students to do a mind map, that’s probably not going to be as rigorous as something that’s requiring students to pick out and analyze examples of characters, themes, or quotes etc.

So how you structure the one pager project will determine it’s rigor. This brings us to our second point.

Who can do a one pager assignment?

One pager projects are the type of task that many students will be able to attempt and that you will be able to easily differentiate according to ability.

That’s part of its appeal. Because it’s only one page, projects can be attempted by students with extremely high ability and students that are struggling.

One pager projects have the appeal that students know that they are only one page. That’s all they have to do, and they can add as much detail as they wish to try and achieve the grades they want.

When can you use a one pager assignment? 

One of the benefits of a one pager assignment is that you can use them at all different points in your unit of work. And you can use one pager projects across many different subjects.

You can use a one pager assignment at the start of a unit to try understand students’ prior learning. You can use it in the middle to figure out where you need to go back and reteach or where students might have not understood information. 

And you can use it at the end as a form of assessment.

Why would you use a one pager assignment? 

First of all, you should use a one pager project because it’s a way for students to engage in the content. And it’s an achievable way for students to demonstrate their learning that is not as reliant on written communication when compared to a task such as an essay.

Students can use illustrations; they can do collage. Students can collaborate with other students, or they can work individually. As long as they can explain the choices that they’ve made, students are able to succeed.

Why else should you use a one pager assignment? Too often in English and Humanities, we get stuck on the idea that students need to be writing for in order to be assessed. But that’s not really the case. 

Students must write in a one-pager assignment. That’s important because they need to be able to explain their ideas. But the advantage of a one pager project is that they can also explain their ideas visually. 

Another benefit is that the writing component of a one-pager assignment is shorter and feels more achievable for students who struggle with writing. Instead of being faced with a six-hundred-word essay, students write paragraphs. And they can use illustrations, diagrams, and other visual tools to communicate their learning.

Other reasons to use one pager assignments… 

Another benefit of one pager projects is that they are shorter tasks. This means that you can assign them more frequently and at different points in a unit of learning. 

Because they are shorter tasks, they are faster to mark. A six-page essay will take you much  longer to give meaningful feedback on than one pager. 

But both tasks can potentially accomplish the same learning goal – a one pager can enable a student to analyze a quote, discuss a character’s growth, and analyze a theme. But it would take them much less time to complete than a six-page essay.

The shorter length allows you to provide more frequent feedback, and we know that more frequent feedback on how to improve is one of the ways students learn. Plus, it is a fast way for you to gather evidence of student learning.

One pagers are also a way for you to help students manage their study time. As teachers, we often forget that students have work across many subjects, and often assessment is due at the same time because of reporting timelines. One pagers enable students to demonstrate their learning in a relatively quick way.

Plus, students are likely to attempt a one pager because it seems like an easier task than a six-page essay.

With one pager projects, students are able to produce or create assessment pieces that meet the learning goals. But those assessment pieces are within students’ ability, are creative works that students are proud of, and are tasks that students have control and ownership over. 

Finally, one pagers are great because they can be completed with paper or you can assign students to do them digitally on a program such as PowerPoint or Canva .

One pagers make differentiating the task easier

One pagers are a great way to cater for different learning abilities and an easy way to differentiate tasks for students of different abilities

In your classroom, you likely have students who are high achieving as well as students who struggle. In this same task, you will be able to create an assessment that caters to both groups.

You can differentiate for these different levels in a variety of ways, including  

• Assigning different texts for the one pager, with higher ability students using more difficult texts
• Creating different parameters for what different students need to include on their one pagers
• Providing different levels of scaffolding for the written components of the task
• Giving students different degrees of freedom of choice of task
• Providing different levels of scaffolding for the decorative components/design of the task
• Grading students on different criteria based on the learning level they’re at (for example, if students are on individual learning plans you are able to use the grade level that they’re at to mark them)

One pager ideas for different subject areas

You might have seen a one pager assignment in English where students need to 

• Analyze a quote
• Discuss how a character grows over the novel
• Analyze a theme
• Include some illustration or decorative element

But how does that translate to different subject areas or text types? What is a one pager assignment in Math and what does a one pager look like in Social Science? Some one pager ideas for different subject areas include

English and humanities

• English: Choose a scene from a text that you have read and create a one-pager about a scene from a non-narrator character point of view. This is a great way to fill gaps and silences in a text.
• History: Show the causes and/or effects of a major historical event including analysis of a primary and secondary source
• Geography: Show the causes and/or effects of a natural disaster on a group of people
• English: Compare two poems on the same theme and describe similarities and differences in structure, technique, and message. 
• History: Show the changes and continuities of a specific civilization over time including analysis of primary and secondary sources
• Geography: show the evolution of a place over time and the causes and effects of those changes
• Legal studies: show the progress of a legal case from the original law, the case law that applies to it, and the outcomes of cases that changed the interpretation of the original law
• Art: discuss an artist and the evolution of their style
• Film and TV: explain the techniques a director uses to get across a specific message in a text
• English: create a blackout poem from a text and then explain what they’re trying to achieve with that blackout poem. What is the message of the poem? How does it relate to the original text? How does it create a new text? 
• Science: show the hypothesis and expected outcomes of an experiment and explain which outcome occurred and possible reasons why
• Math: show what the Fibonacci sequence is and why it’s important by discussing how it appears in different locations (for example, in nature, architecture, construction, or art)
• Biology: classify different plant types and show similarities and differences between different species of the same genus
• Chemistry: classify the different chemicals in everyday products (such as shampoo) and explain how those chemicals function within the product
• Physics: show how lenses in glasses work or how pressure and gravity in household plumbing keep water flowing in the intended direction

As you can see from these one pager ideas for different subjects, there are many ways to use one pagers in many different subjects. 

It’s this flexibility which also makes it a fantastic, useful teaching tool and assessment task. 

How can you structure a one pager project?

So, you’re convinced. You want to assign a one pager assignment. What do you do now?

The first step is to work out where in the unit of work you want to assign it and whether it will be formative or summative. 

If you want to use it as a formative assessment, a one pager idea that is useful for gauging learning is to get students to complete one at the start of the unit and one at the end of the unit. You could also do one mid-way through to see progress or areas of misunderstanding.

In this way, you are achieving a few goals. Firstly, you are gauging prior learning at the start of the unit. This allows you to work out what students know already and avoid spending too much time reviewing that information. 

Secondly, this approach allows you to see student learning over time. And it gives you evidence to use in case students don’t complete summative assessment or don’t do as well as you think they should have. 

Further, it is a way to avoid the dreaded AI-generated essay, because if you do it before students begin their summative assessment it can work as a forced note-taking before an extended written task.

How do you grade a one pager assignment?

Luckily, because one pager projects and one pager ideas are so flexible, grading can be quite flexible too. You’ll just need to make sure that your one pager directions enable students to complete the task and answer whichever criteria you are assessing them on.

Questions you may like to ask when designing your one pager rubric include:

• Are you going to grade the creative, decorative, or design elements? If so, how much will it be worth? This will depend on the subject area, as in some subjects such as art and design, this aspect would carry a heavier weight than a subject such as science.
• Does the design, creative, or decorative part have to be made from a specific material or media? Can it be hand drawn, or can students use collages, photos, or digital media?
• How will the one pager rubric reflect the learning area? Which learning outcomes or criteria will you assess?
• How will the task need to be designed so that students can address those criteria? 
• Will students be graded on content?
• Will students be graded on written expression?
• Are spelling, punctuation, and grammar important to assess in this task?
• Are you grading paragraph structure?
• Do students need to include evidence such as quotes, data, statistics, examples, or paraphrasing?
• Which information are you looking for students to recall, synthesize, and/or evaluate?
• How will you differentiate? Will differentiation affect the grading rubric?

These questions are important because they will help you set the parameters of the task. It’s probably best to have the criteria for the one pager worked out before you design the task so that you can ensure your instructions lead students to complete the task as you intended it.

How can you assign a one pager?

An easy way to assign a one pager assignment is to give students

• A blank piece of paper (if your task will be formative, or at the start of the unit, this may be enough guidance for the task and it may be more like an illustrated ‘brain dump’ than a structured response)
• A blank comic strip template
• A visual note-taking template
• Doodle notes templates
• A template you have designed specifically for this task

There are many options of blank one pager templates online. So you might find a version that works for what you are wanting students to do.

The advantage of using templates is that they give students a structure to start with. And it’s also a way to scaffold more heavily for students who need it because you can explicitly label parts the they need to do, or you can pre-fill quotes or themes into the task.

Once you have your one pager rubric and have chosen the template you wish to use (if you want to use one), you then need to write the task instructions.

It would also be a good idea to give students a one pager project plan or one pager directions so that they know the steps that they need to do to complete the one pager assignment.

The possibilities are endless…

With one pager projects, students can do one pager novel projects or one pagers on scientific experiments. Because it’s such a versatile assessment tool and learning tool, one pager assignments deserve a place in your classroom.

Have awesome one pager examples for ELA or history? Or a great one pager project example in a different subject area? 

Send us pictures of examples for one pagers for novels or poems, or social studies one pagers. Anything your students have created that is amazing, we want to see it.

We hope we’ve answered your main questions about one pager projects. Have any more questions about what is a one pager assignment or how to use them in your classroom? Get in touch on Facebook or Instagram .

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Why One-Pagers Are Awesome!

Learn why one-pagers are one of my go-to activities for breaking down complex topics and texts. Understand what they are, why you and your students will love them, and how to implement them in your ELA classroom. I even have the advice to help you tackle the biggest obstacle you’ll encounter with this activity.

One-pagers have been gaining in popularity and relevance over the past few years. In the world of Tweets and captions, our students are used to digesting (and creating) bite-sized content. One-pagers are a great way to bring this concept into your classroom, encouraging your students to engage with literature in a fun, new way.

Read on for everything you need to know about these one-page wonders and how to implement them in your classroom.

Okay, But What Even is a One-Pager?

A one-pager hones in on a student’s response to a text. How? As you might have guessed by the name, the response is limited to a single page. And I’m not talking about a written  response, per se. Instead, one-pagers invite students to combine written and visual responses through a mix of anything from quotes and symbols to words and drawings. 

In ELA, one-pagers are often used to interpret and analyze a theme or character development in a narrative text or the main idea of an informational text. Either way, this activity is all about helping students process a text thoughtfully. Students must engage in critical thought as they carefully select what goes on the one-pager.

Think of one-pagers as the highlight reel of a student’s analysis. It might include what they deem to be the most important quotes, symbols, connections, questions, and analysis, among many other things.

The Benefits of One-Pagers in the ELA Classroom

This activity is a colorful and visually appealing alternative to the traditional worksheets and written responses. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t require deep and critical thought. In fact, it’s exactly the opposite. Due to the limited space on a one-pager, students are encouraged to sift through the fluff and choose to display what they deem most important. Therefore, one-pagers open the door for a different yet meaningful approach to reviewing, unpacking, and analyzing literature.  

Additionally, I’ve found one-pagers to be a great way to check student understanding of a text. While some students get hung up on their anxieties or uncertainties, or (let’s face it) laziness, associated with a more traditional piece of analytical writing, these one-pagers allow them the focus solely on their critical thinking. Instead of figuring out how to string sentences, let alone paragraphs, together, students take more of a collage approach to showcase their thought process.

Finally, research shows visual arts mixed with text can help students remember details. That’s especially beneficial if you’re doing this activity in conjunction with a larger project or assessment.

An added bonus? These one-pagers are fun to grade!

Avoid This Popular One-Pager Problem

The truth is, some students will resist the initial idea of the one-pager due to their perceived lack of creativity. I’m not artistic , they’ll complain. But that’s where it’s important to remind students that this assignment is not about artistic ability. Sure, you can require that they use colors to make it pop, but remind students it’s all about critical thinking. When I remind students that this activity is about their interpretation and analysis of the text, not the artwork, I always see a pair or two of tense shoulders loosen up.

Additionally, be sure to provide clear guidelines for your expectations and, ultimately, their success. These guidelines can help put struggling students at ease and, if you can, provide plenty of examples and templates to help students get started.

One-Pager Examples (English Language Arts)

I could go on and on about all the fun ways to incorporate one-pagers into the ELA classroom. But because I’m sure you have papers to grade or lessons to plan, I’ll keep this to a few of my favorites.

• Summer reading projects. If your students are assigned summer reading, have them share their book through a one-pager. Then, you can hang up the colorful projects around the room to give students a sense of belonging in the classroom. Talk about building a positive classroom culture!
• Free choice reading projects. It can be difficult to assess students’ free-choice reading. (Do you really want to read 25+ essays about 25+ different novels?) One-pagers are a great way to ask students to express the central theme, the main character, or the biggest takeaways from their novel. Then, let students share with the class or do a gallery walk, encouraging them to note any titles they might like to read next.
• End-of-novel review: Preparing for a longer written assignment, project, or test? One-pagers are a perfect review activity, requiring students to dive back into the novel in an engaging way. Short on time? Simply tailor your guidelines so this assignment is assessment-worthy!
• Literature circles. Incorporate one-pagers as a rotating “job” within the literature circle, or as an end-of-book project. Personally, I love using them when I have literature circles with a unifying theme. That way, each group creates a theme-based one-pager to share with the class. It’s a great way to begin a whole-class discussion regarding the theme.
• Diversifying and differentiating student responses. One-pagers are a great activity to throw in here and there in general. They’re also a great option for students who struggle to express their thoughts in long-form writing assignments since the activity still requires students to interpret and make meaning of a text.

Creating Guidelines for Your One-Pager Activity

When it comes to one-pagers, guidelines can help struggling students find success and keep the most creative students’ feet on the ground. However, you don’t want to squash students’ creativity by providing too strict of or too many guidelines. Ultimately, how you structure the guidelines is up to you.

Step one, however, should be to clearly define the purpose or goal of the one-pager to keep students focused. Then, I like to include a  list of required elements as well as a list they can choose from. (I also require color, neatness, cohesivity, and neatness.)

For example, you may want to require the book title and author to be on the page. I might also require stand-out quotes and symbolic art that highlight the one-pagers purpose, such as a theme or character development.

Additionally, here are some other elements you might ask your students to include:

• Essential ideas or theme
• Major events and dates
• Short analysis
• Connections to self, other literature, or society.
• A symbolic border
• Important words
• Original poems
• Illustrations of character, setting, important scenes
• Get techy with a character tweet or thematic hashtag

The options are endless! You’d be amazed at how creative students get and just how much they can squeeze on a single page.

Alternatively, you can provide students with templates. A straightforward template will help struggling students know exactly what kind of information or art to put where. Bye-bye writers block!

As for grading, there are so many existing rubrics for one-pagers online. All it takes is a simple Google search and print! Or, you can use them as inspiration as you create your own. Again, just be sure that you are not grading students on creativity, but instead, on things like their overall analysis and thought process.

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The Giver One Pager Project

Show Them Off!

Consider hanging up your students’ one-pagers to offer a colorful POP to your walls! Besides, whether they admit it or not, students get all giddy when they see that their work is part of the classroom décor.

Imagine What Your Students Could Come Up With!

Showing examples of successful one-pagers (and ones that miss the mark) can help students understand your expectations for this assignment.

Now that you’ve read this post, you probably have an idea of how you can incorporate one-pagers into your classroom already, right? Well, this is where it gets even more exciting.

One-pagers are perfect for any grade and– get this– any subject . With a few adjustments, you can incorporate one-pagers across the board. A one-pager on ancient Rome? The Revolutionary War? Industrial Revolution? For life and earth sciences? I mean, how fun! So, be sure to share this idea with all your teacher friends!

8 thoughts on “Why One-Pagers Are Awesome!”

Love this idea, I think kids would benefit from learning this way as it is more fun.

Does this one pager assignment work with graphic novels? Has anyone tried it? What are things I would need to modify?

I have a product in my TpT store that works with any novel. While I have never used it with a graphic novel, there is no reason it shouldn’t work. As long as your novel contains literary elements, you should be good to go. -Sam

What about artworks, are there any examples of kids analyzing artworks or reporting on their knowledge of an artists life or a movement? Can imaging doing one.

Thanks so much for the visual examples and guidelines!

This looks awesome! Considering ways to modify for third graders. Any new ideas of ways to engage them in their reading and writing are greatly appreciated! Thanks for sharing!

Hi! Do you have a rubric for this project? I can’t figure out how it would be marked otherwise. Thank you!

Yes!!! My one pager projects include holistic rubrics.

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A one-pager is a great way to align the various departments in your business and ensure that your products have the support they need to be successful.

What is a one-pager?

A one-pager is a succinct and strategic document, typically restricted to a single page, designed to provide a comprehensive overview of a product, project, or idea to foster alignment and clarity among stakeholders.

Unlike lengthy traditional business documents, a one-pager distills the essence of the matter in a clear, concise manner, making it an essential tool for efficient communication and decision-making in fast-paced business environments.

Presenting key details, objectives, and the value proposition in a condensed format enables stakeholders from various departments to swiftly grasp the essence of the initiative and rally behind it.

How are one-pagers used in product management?

Put yourself in the shoes of a head of sales: a product manager comes up to you and says, “Oh, by the way, we’re launching this big new feature tomorrow. Just thought I’d let you know.”

Your first reaction would probably be to express frustration; only finding out about a new feature the day before release means that you’re now pressured to come up with all of the documentation and training for the team to support this new feature in one day. Have we got the right marketing materials? How do we sell this thing? What does it even do?

There are still so many unanswered questions that it’s unlikely this feature will get the support it needs to succeed. This is a surefire way to frustrate everyone involved in building your product.

As a product manager, there are many different departments that you have to interact with — engineering, sales, customer support, implementation, marketing, etc. — and you need a way to quickly get all of these disparate departments aligned on what you’re doing so they can support the product development process effectively.

A one-pager enables you to distribute a single, concise document that everyone can read and understand to know what’s being worked on. If anyone has a question about the new feature, they can just quickly and easily refer to this document to understand exactly what you’re delivering and why.

What a one-pager isn’t

To better understand what a one-pager is, it’s good to review what it isn’t.

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A one-pager is not a:

Project plan

Product requirements document (prd), business case.

Project plans are a relic of the old waterfall way of working — that is, having a specific project plan created by a project manager, with timelines and Gantt charts to show what specific deliverables will be completed and when. These tend to be very static documents and don’t mesh well with the modern way of product development.

Product requirements documents (PRDs) tend to follow a priority system, such as MoSCoW, detailing the specifics of both the feature and functionality. These can be many pages long and are generally used word-for-word as a guide for the engineering team to deliver a new solution.

PRDs are often fairly immutable. They are written upfront and then pushed into the delivery cycle. This is essentially a rebranded version of a project plan.

A business case generally is a larger, more formal document that outlines financial investment and returns for a product as well as target markets, competition, financial projections, and marketing strategies for a feature. Generally, this type of document is used to get buy-in from an executive team for a long-term project that’s delivered using waterfall.

All of these forms of documentation are outdated and don’t work well in conjunction with modern software development practices. They’re all too slow and cumbersome to be useful, and they tend to be extremely prescriptive with their descriptions. That’s where the idea of the one-pager comes in.

Popular one-pager models

There are a few different ways you can frame a one-pager. One traditional way is to create a succinct PRD, but as we discussed earlier, this type of documentation is outmoded. Even the mere mention of the word “requirements” can be enough to set a poor precedent for the business (think “customer requirements” for a contract deal).

So what are some alternative, more modern models we can turn to?

The Amazon press release

The shape up pitch document, the lean canvas.

According to Ian McAllister , a Director at Amazon , they use the idea of ‘working backwards’ and start with an internal press release announcing the product. This document gives a high-level view of what the new product will do and how it’s better than previous or alternative solutions. He also mentions that there should be no technical speak or specifications as this is a document that should be targeted at the customers who will use the product, and not just to engineers who might be building it.

Some of the benefits of the press release are that it’s easy to manipulate, understandable by a wide range of audiences, and forces the Product Manager to articulate the benefits and customer problems in a very narrow scope. The fact that this is designed to be a short document also means that it’s easily editable before any technical work gets completed, to make sure that the end result will actually deliver the right level of value to customers that the PM expects.

As with anything, there are also downsides to this approach, one of which is that the press release might corner the engineering team into trying to solve a problem that is technically extremely complex, I’ve seen this happen when someone comes up with a fantastic idea and everyone agrees that it would be a game-changer only to get to the engineering team and find out that you’d have to invent completely new technology to enable it – this could be either complex or even impossible depending on the situation.

The Shape Up methodology calls for using a pitch document  to present at the betting table for assessment. They describe the pitch as follows:

The purpose of the pitch is to present a good potential bet. It’s basically a presentation. The ingredients are all the things that we need to both capture the work done so far and present it in a form that will enable the people who schedule projects to make an informed bet.

Here is an example of what a pitch document looks like:

The key elements inside the pitch document are:

• Problem — The raw idea, a use case, or something we’ve seen that motivates us to work on this
• Appetite — How much time we want to spend and how that constrains the solution
• Solution — The core elements we came up with, presented in a form that’s easy for people to immediately understand
• Rabbit holes — Details about the solution worth calling out to avoid problems
• No-go — Anything specifically excluded from the concept: functionality or use cases we intentionally aren’t covering to fit the appetite or make the problem tractable

Again, there are positives and negatives to this type of one-pager. It is a clear and succinct document that can be shared among the team to gain alignment quickly. It also helps you consider the potential pitfalls of the project and set limits on what you’re going to work on (using the “no-go” section).

The negatives are that this type of document might not have enough of the business side of the proposition to convince other departments of the relevance of the problem to the overall business objectives.

A Lean Canvas is a single, visual document that outlines all the critical aspects you need to consider when moving from a potential idea to a mature business:

The Lean Canvas has become quite synonymous with one-pagers. It sounds great on paper (pun intended), but it’s showing its age a bit when compared to the slightly more modern alternatives listed above.

There is also the obvious fact that a lean canvas tends to be landscape on an A3 page, which is stretching the whole concept of a one-pager in general.

There are also some superfluous sections in the Lean Canvas that can be removed to make it more streamlined, specifically the “unfair advantage,” “early adopters,” “cost structure,” and “revenue streams” information. Those are more business-specific and don’t need to be part of a product development one-pager.

4 rules for creating one-pagers

From the examples above, there are many different ways to approach the one-pager, but it’s important to follow a few key rules:

• Keep it to one page! If you find yourself spilling onto page two, then you need to spend more time understanding the problem so you can articulate it more concisely
• What is the customer’s problem?
• How is this problem related to our business objectives?
• What are our solution options?
• How will we measure success?
• The one-pager is a living document. Always be looking to make it more effective.
• Share this document early and often within your business to make sure all departments get a chance to add their input, as well as to maintain strong alignment between all your teams

How to create a one-pager (3 steps)

So the question you’re probably asking is: ‘What’s the best one-pager for me?’

As with everything, it depends. Whichever model you decide to use as a template, it’s important to follow some simple rules when creating a one-pager for your business. It’s likely that the one-pager you developed for a business that you worked at previously can’t be used exactly the same way at the next business, which is where the idea of a living document comes into play.

Being able to use some core ideas and guiding principles means you can create a new one-pager that fits in wherever you end up working, no matter the structure. The steps below serve as a good starting point and template when creating your own one-pagers:

• Answer key questions
• Share early and often
• Create a living document

1. Answer key questions

• What is the customer problem we’re trying to solve?
• What’s the current solution (if any)?
• How does this relate to our business objectives (for the quarter/OKRs)?
• What are our solution ideas? (do we need links to tech docs)?
• How do we market this?

2. Share early and often

There’s no point in developing a streamlined one-pager that is still only siloed within the product management team. It’s important that as soon as there’s enough content in the document, it gets shared amongst all the different departments so that they can comment and add their feedback and knowledge before it gets to any prioritization meetings.

3. Create a living document

There’s nothing worse than putting something into practice with the idea that this is the final answer and never evolving it. This is the pitfall that companies have fallen into over the last 30 years with software development, so it’s important to not let that type of thinking seep into other areas of the business, such as when we document problems to be solved by our business.

One-pager template

Use the following template should help you get started building a one-pager:

• Write a concise description of the problem that the customer is facing here.
• Are customers using a workaround? Can you manually do this in the background for them? Are there any third party apps that they are using to get around this right now?
• Why is solving this problem right now important for our business? What objective are we looking to hit by solving this problem?
• Describe a basic solution idea, maybe a wireframe or fat marker sketch. If you need more detail you can link out to a technical document done by an engineer.
• What marketing materials will we need to launch this? E.g. FAQ, how-to, pricing, marketing site updates, updated sales decks, etc.
• What metrics will we use to measure whether or not we’ve successfully solved this problem for our customers?

You can access this one-pager template as a Google Doc here (to use the template, first select File > Make a copy from the main menu).

One-pager example

The following is an example of what a one-pager might look like for a new product feature:

• Many users struggle with organizing their saved content, leading to inefficiency and frustration.
• Users currently use third-party bookmarking tools or manual folder systems, which do not integrate well with our platform.
• By addressing this problem, we aim to increase user engagement on our platform by 20 percent and reduce the churn rate by 5 percent within the next quarter.
• Introduce a “Smart Organizer” feature that automatically categorizes saved content based on keywords, source, and user preferences. [Link to wireframe]
• Launch a teaser campaign on social media highlighting the benefits of “Smart Organizer”
• Host webinars to demonstrate the feature and gather initial feedback
• Update our FAQ section, create how-to guides, and integrate the feature’s details into our marketing materials and sales decks
• 25 percent increase in saved content within the first month
• 15 percent reduction in third-party bookmarking tool mentions in our feedback system
• 10 percent increase in user satisfaction regarding content organization

Key takeaways

For product managers, a one-pager is one of the most effective ways to achieve alignment between different areas of your business and rally teams around a singular customer problem that the business wants to solve. It is a modern form of internal communication that is much more concise and effective than old methods such as PRDs and project plans.

When coming up with your one-pager template, there are quite a few examples out there with different structures, from Amazon’s “press release” approach to the Shape Up “pitch document” method. But what’s more important than using a template is that the content works for your specific business situation.

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11 one-pager examples and how to create your own

One of my responsibilities as a marketer at an agency is sending monthly performance reports to my clients. They're busy people, so I include an executive summary at the beginning of each report that consolidates seven pages of detailed information into a few key bullet points—the "must-knows."

One-pagers serve the same function as these executive summaries. They boil down a lot of business information into one concise summary, enabling stakeholders or investors to quickly review important information and make important decisions—to invest or not invest, to use your offering or not, whatever the case may be. Needless to say, they need to pack a punch.

Here, I'll walk you through what should be included (and where) in these strategic documents, as well as share some one-pager examples and templates to help guide you through the creation process.

Table of contents:

How to make a one-pager

11 one-pager templates

One-pager examples in the real world, one-pager best practices, what is a one-pager.

A one-pager is a one-page document that clearly and visually lays out all the key items you need to know about a product, service, project , or concept. With a combination of text, visuals, and design elements, one-pagers grab the reader's attention and provide a comprehensive overview in an easily digestible format.

One-pagers can be for either internal or external use. For example, you may share an internal training one-pager with your employees or a startup plan one-pager with potential investors.

How to make a one-pager 

Think of a one-pager as a resume for whatever you're one-paging: it should tell the readers everything they absolutely need to know about you—in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Depending on the type of one-pager, you might include different elements, but here's a breakdown of the general elements you should include in each section of your one-pager. Keep scrolling for more examples of how these components would look in action. 

Since we read English top-to-bottom and left-to-right, organize your one-pager accordingly. At the top of your one-pager, include:

Company name and/or logo: Regardless of the type of one-pager, this is important for immediate brand recognition.

Headline: Give your audience a reason to keep reading. Write an attention-grabbing headline that hints toward 1) what your one-pager is about and 2) why they should care.

Brief overview of your product, service, project, or concept: It only needs to be a sentence or two.

Problem statement: Clearly state the issue you want to solve. It may be an overarching problem your business solves or a specific knowledge gap your one-pager fills.

Solution: Briefly explain how your offering or information provided in the one-pager solves the problem you previously stated.

If you think of a one-pager as a sandwich, the middle is the meat. Pack this section full of value:

Key benefits/features: This is where you'll highlight the benefits or features of your offering. What makes it unique? What problems does it solve? What are the specific features customers will love? 

Target market: Who is the audience of your one-pager? What are their needs and pain points? The more specific you can get, the better.

It's time to wrap it up and give people one last takeaway. Include these components at the bottom of your one-pager:

Future objectives: Outline your general plans for the future. What are your goals for the next year, three years, or five years? How are you working to achieve these goals? 

Call to action (CTA): Tell your readers what you want them to do next. Do you want them to contact you for more information? Buy your product? Donate to a cause? Reach out to a certain department with any questions?

I had my design team create almost a dozen one-pager examples—and templates to go along with them. As we run through them, I'll also share a few examples from the wild to get your creative gears turning. 

1. General one-pager/company one-pager

A general one-pager is like a company overview you'll share with customers and works well for general networking events or conferences. It includes all the standard one-pager elements I mentioned before: 

Company name and logo

Brief overview

Problem statement

Key benefits/features

Target market

Future objectives

2. Startup one-pager

Startups are all about speed, and a one-pager is a great representation of that. It's basically your elevator pitch . Whether presented during investor pitches, at networking events, or as part of your marketing materials, it can help you sell your scrappiness. A startup one-pager should include standard one-pager components plus a few extras:

Media attention/social proof

Investment stage

3. Pitch presentation one-pager

Startups, project managers, consultants, and non-profits can all use a pitch presentation one-pager to summarize the benefits they offer their audience. 

This one-pager serves as a quick reference guide, allowing presenters to succinctly convey their message, capture the audience's attention, and pique their interest. It's also a leave-behind for potential investors, partners, or clients to facilitate follow-up discussions. It should include: 

Market research summary

Team details, including specific expertise

4. Strategic plan one-pager

A strategic plan one-pager not only helps stakeholders easily digest your goals—it also serves as an accountability measure. It prevents people from leaving your presentation and immediately forgetting what your objectives are and how you plan to achieve them. 

Companies can use this one-pager to create organization-wide clarity, and non-profits can use it to appeal to donors. Make sure to include:

Vision/ mission statement

Key metrics

5. Product one-pager

Product one-pagers are invaluable for marketing and sales teams, enabling them to present essential information in a clear and compelling way to potential customers or stakeholders. They can even be used as an internal resource for new hires. Here's what to include:

Product name

Unique selling proposition

Timeline for launch (if new)

6. Company report one-pager

This one-pager can be used internally as an employee handout or post-summary during an annual company meeting. It can also be shared with external stakeholders to give a glimpse into the company's performance and future outlook. It should include:

Financial highlights

Achievements

Future challenges

7. Investor update one-pager

Give your investors the rundown on performance and the current goings-on of your business with a nice one-pager that breaks it all down. This concise update tells investors what they need to know—and nothing more. Here's what investors like to see: 

Progress toward milestones

Current challenges

Potential asks

8. Employee orientation one-pager

When I start a new job, I mentally prepare to be bombarded with a lot of information on the first day. Give new hires an employee orientation one-pager, so they have a quick overview of the key details they'll want to remember. Provide information like: 

Company culture

Leadership overview

Onboarding timeline

Key contacts

9. B2B one-pager

Decision-makers at businesses are busy, and a one-pager can cut through the noise to clearly communicate what your company does and why it's valuable (leave the jargon at home). Weave these elements into your one-pager:

Customer testimonials

Value proposition

10. Marketing one-pager

A marketing one-pager is an internal document that helps keep your company's teams aligned on branding and marketing. It's a snapshot of critical elements like:

Brand colors

Brand voice

Marketing goals

Customer personas

11. Consulting services one-pager

This type of one-pager is used by consulting firms to present their services, expertise, and value proposition to prospective clients. It offers a quick look into the consultancy's offerings to show clients how it can address their specific needs and challenges. These one-pagers typically include:

Client testimonials

Contact information

Those templates will hopefully give you a head start, but let's take a look at some real-life examples of how people use and design one-pagers. Check out this variety of examples from real companies with details on what I think they particularly nail in their one-pagers.

General one-pager

In this general one-pager, Threekit briefly explains what it does and how it integrates with Salesforce. More specifically, it uses a variety of visual elements, from mockups to illustrated icons, to break up the text and display what the company's 3D product configurator looks like in action. 

Each component is also clearly defined with three separate background colors, which makes it easy to scan. Minimal copy is used while still getting the point across, and there's a clear visual hierarchy with the largest title and image at the top of the page.

Product one-pager

This product one-pager from CAT is a little more text-heavy, but it uses callout boxes and illustrations to break things up—plus, the bullet points make it easier to scan. The eye-catching header image is impressive, and there's also a clear headline and CTA.

B2B one-pager

Customer success stories and testimonials make for great B2B one-pagers. SAP packs a lot of text on here, but it also keeps the document visually appealing with photography, colorful stats, and bullet points. You'll also notice this one is landscape-oriented—that's not as common, but it can be an interesting way to grab people's attention.

Consulting one-pager

The example below is technically two pages, but it packs a lot of info into it. Clear headers help explain what services the company offers and the value those services hold. It also establishes credentials with customer testimonials and stats like "18B+ investment in security R&D and 3,500 cybersecurity experts." These elements help prospective clients feel secure about choosing them as a partner.

Just because you've managed to cram some important information onto one page doesn't mean it'll be effective. Here are some best practices to make sure your one-pagers have the effect you want them to:

Be concise: If you can't read a sentence on your one-pager without taking a breath, it's too long. Keep the copy short and sweet, so you don't defeat the whole purpose of a one-pager.

Appeal to your audience: Keep your reader in mind while creating your one-pager. If you're speaking to your customer base, avoid the corporate jargon. If you're speaking to investors, make sure to include the numbers that matter to them.

Include white space: While you may feel tempted to use every inch of space you have —don't. Empty space around text and visuals keeps your one-pager from looking cluttered and your reader from feeling overwhelmed.

Write a compelling headline: Like anything else you write, you need to grab the reader's attention right away. Make it immediately clear what value your one-pager will provide.

Tell a story: Like a good story, your one-pager should have a distinct beginning, middle, and end. Every component should connect to tell the story in a clear and engaging way.

Follow formatting guidelines: It's called a one -pager for a reason. Stick to one side of a page. Also, ensure it can be easily distributed physically and digitally by sticking to a standard letter (8.5 x 11") format.

Get creative with distribution: Of course, one-pagers are great for physical handouts, but think beyond that. Can you share the content on your website or social accounts? Can you adapt the content to be sent as an email newsletter? Choose a distribution method that makes sense for your audience.

In a world where a 10-second TikTok can barely hold people's attention, one-pagers are concise resources that have stood the test of time. If a one-pager isn't quite the right format for your needs, learn how to create whitepapers to communicate more in-depth information.

Related reading:

Business startup checklist: Launching a startup step by step

How to write an elevator pitch (with template)

6 unconventional tips for finding new clients

The best presentation software

Project proposal templates to capture your vision

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Cecilia is a content marketer with a degree in Media and Journalism from the University of South Dakota. After graduating, Cecilia moved to Omaha, Nebraska where she enjoys reading (almost as much as book buying), decor hunting at garage sales, and spending time with her two cats.

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How to Use One Pagers to Assess Student Understanding in Secondary ELA

August 11, 2021 by Samantha H.

The One Pager Project is a creative and engaging way to assess student understanding on a variety of topics. This blog will explain exactly what a One Pager is, how to use one, provide you with plenty of One Pager examples, and even give you the opportunity to grab a free One Pager template. While you may think this looks like a simple project at first, you’ll be surprised to find that the One Pager combines both artistry and analysis which can really help your students think creatively and deeply about a text. Let me show you how a One Pager can transform the way you think about assessing your students.

What is a One Pager Project?

The concept of the One Pager is simple. It’s a single-page response to a reading that connects the ideas in the text to the student’s thoughts creatively.  The goal is for students to show they understand the big ideas, themes, or connections of a text. Students can reflect thoughtfully on a piece of text and demonstrate understanding all on a blank 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper. These can be used for whole class novels, choice reading, short stories, etc. See below for a few examples!

Variations of the One Pager Project

One of the greatest aspects about the One Pager is just how diverse the assignment can be. Teachers can provide as many guidelines as makes sense for their students’ needs and abilities. If you’re looking for something specific (like character comparison), it is easy to include that in your project instructions. If you’re looking for something more student-led, create a list of possibilities they can choose to include. Read below for some of my suggestions.

These are the requirements I usually make non-negotiable:

• Title & Author
• Images that connect to the text

After my required items, I start to choose things that would make the One Pager more unique to the text. Is there something specific you want to assess your students on? Include it!

Here are a few requirements I’ve used to create variety in my One Pagers:

• A collection of songs that reflect a character, theme, etc.
• Favorite character, event, etc.
• A border that symbolizes something from the text

How to Use a One Pager

The One Pager can be used to assess knowledge of a novel or short story, be used in literature circles or independent reading assignments. You can even adapt it for poetry, films, articles, TED talks, plays, or ice breakers during the first week of school. The possibilities truly are endless.

One of the best parts of a One Pager is the fact that no two are alike, so it makes it very hard for students to duplicate work. Pro Tip: If you are teaching virtually and you want to make sure your students’ work is truly theirs, have them take a photo of themselves with their completed One Pager as part of the turn in requirements.

What if my students aren’t “artsy”?

Maybe the biggest setback to this assignment is the anticipation of students worrying about the artistic quality of this assignment. While your more artistic students might excitedly crank out Pinterest-worthy projects, what about those who shy away from having to combine their knowledge with visual elements? 

An easy tweak is to provide a template for students to use if they aren’t sure how to design their One Pager to include all of your requirements. You can subscribe above to grab my free template or create your own using programs like Canva or PowerPoint. Having a bit of constraint can actually be liberating for students who might get overwhelmed looking at all that blank space. In addition, try having a variety of examples available for students to glean inspiration from. It may make the “blankness” feel a little less intimidating. Students who want more creative freedom can simply turn the page over and use the blank side.

Are you looking to use a One Pager in your class, but feel overwhelmed with the possibilities? Click here to get my done-for-you One Pager resource that includes print-and-go and editable instructions. Want both a printable and digital version of this resource? Grab my bundle and save 20% on both. 

Have you used One Pagers yet in your classroom? I’d love to hear how you’ve adapted the assignment and add to my own list of ways to implement it in the classroom. Sound off in the comments below or follow me on Instagram or Facebook to join in on the discussion.

Happy teaching!

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How to Write an Impressive Business One Pager? (Template Included)

The all-important one-pager is a document every business needs. One-pagers help you consolidate and communicate the most relevant information regarding your product or business and help move your business forward. Curious how? Let’s find out!

Time is the most important asset in our lives.

How many times have you heard someone utter these famous words- “I  don’t have time” ? I bet a million-gazillion times. Or more! Nobody seems to have enough of it as we are all looking for more ways to become more productive & looking to carve out some time out from our busy schedules.

Apart from the time spent on our personal and professional lives, the average American spends 24 hours a week online. It’s no surprise that you keep hearing those words “I don’t have time” now more than ever. Naturally, the tools, hacks, or methods that help us save time from our busy day are being valued even more.

One such tool is a one-pager. If you are running a business, the value of time increases exponentially.

You only have a few blocks of time in a day to convince your prospects, clients, partner, or investors about the value proposition of your business or product brings to the table and how you are different than those other businesses out there.

This is where a one-pager comes in. But before we tell you how you can create an awesome-looking one-pager, let us first go over some of the basics of one-pager and see what exactly it is and what it’s not! Read on…

What is a Business One-Pager? (Definition)

A one-pager is, as the name suggests, a one-page document. A one-pager is used as marketing material to demonstrate your business overview or your product or service information on a single page. It’s can be used to pitch your company or used as a  new-age brochure.

A one-pager is a brief outline of your business , describing what your business is about, what the problem you are trying to solve, what your needs are, and ultimately what you want your audience can achieve from you.

Other important topics to include in your one-pager can be:

• Information about your team
• Your business model
• Target market
• Some info on your competitors
• Your USP (unique selling proposition)
• Future financials or next steps
• Milestones that your company has accomplished to date

The one thing you should take special care of while creating one-pagers is to make them clear, crisp, and concise. Usually, key information is displayed in a visual format to emphasize its importance and engage your audience.

There are lots of different uses for one-pagers:

• Use them to quickly pitch investors
• Advertise your business locally
• Sales and marketing teams can distribute them to clients, partners, or prospects.
• Shared as flyers
• PR and media one-pagers can provide journalists with all the information they need to write about you

The page displays the core details of your business—what you’re offering, how you’re going to do it, and why you stand out from the competition —tightly packaged to fit on a single sheet of paper or a webpage!

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Why Business One-Pager is an Important Document?

The primary purpose of your one-pager is to SELL the reader on your business. By giving the reader, a crisp, concise, and to-the-point overview of your business , product, or service helping you capture their attention.

Your goal is to get them excited to read the entire thing. A weak one-pager can easily turn off investors and clients and hamper your chances of a great first impression.

Here are some of the benefits of writing an exceptional one-pager:

1. Helps Save Time

The biggest advantage of creating a one-pager is its ability to save an immense amount of time for the reader. It’s one of the reasons why one-pagers exist. It saves your audience time to understand your business, and piques their interest in your company from the get-go.

Your clients, partners, lenders, or investors are all busy people. Time is the most valuable asset of investors and they surely don’t want to spend it reading a 100-page document right out of the gate. You need to begin with a solid case and get them intrigued enough to care.

2. Attention-Grabbing Machine!

Investors see hundreds of business proposals every day. How do you plan on standing out and capturing their attention? A one-pager is designed to entice and engage readers and pique their interest in your business, product, or service.

3. Provides Clarity

Writing one-pagers forces you to compress your long business proposal into a single page and place your focus only on the most important points. This gives you better clarity of thought and improves your own understanding of your business.

It also improves your ability to pitch someone quickly and effectively and is a great confidence booster. It also helps identify loopholes in your business proposal quickly so that you can work on improving them.

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How to Create a Business One-Pager in the Best Way Possible?

In order to create a one-page the best way, you need to take care of two vital elements that make or break a one-pager:

Now that we’ve discussed a ton about the role content of your one-pager plays in its success, it’s time to make sure that we cover how to have the best design in place to make it eye-grabbing and enticing.

The content of your one-pager will only take you so far. You have to present that vital information in a professional, readable, and visually stunning manner.

Both content and design play a huge role in the creation of an effective one-pager. However, writing great content in a concise manner and making it visually appealing can take time, effort, and a lot of back and forth between your team members.

What if, your team members could work simultaneously in a collaborative workspace to create an awesome-looking one-pager?

If you itching to create one for yourself, worry no more! Let’s show you how you can create a visually appealing one-pager quickly and easily.

Bit is a new-age cloud-based document collaboration tool that helps teams create, manage, and track workplace documents including one-pagers.

Bit  helps you make sure your one-pager is more than just plain boring text and images. Apart from allowing multiple users to collaborate on a document, Bit also allows users to embed any sort of rich media in documents like YouTube videos, Google Docs, One Drive Excel Spreadsheets, GIFs, Tweets, interactive charts, etc.

Basically, anything on the internet with a link (i.e. www.example.com, https://example.com) can be shared and Bit will automatically turn it into live visual content that appears within your documents!

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Just copy-paste the URL of your content on a blank line of the document editor and hit enter. Bit then generates a live preview of your digital content within your document. Imagine how rich and interactive your one-pagers can become.

The best part is that Bit documents allow simultaneous collaboration between team members. This means that team members like content creators, editors, designers, marketers, etc. can work together to produce one-pagers (or any other workplace document) by brainstorming and pitching in their ideas !

The resulting documents are created faster, they look impressive, they’re creative, visually stunning, and best of all error-free!

Another great thing about Bit is that you can actually track your workplace documents when you share them with your audience. You can understand how effective your content actually is by observing how much time was spent on your documents, how often they were viewed, etc.

Want to kick-start your one-pager? Check out our free one-pager template .

Few more templates you might be interested in:

• SWOT Analysis Template
• Business Plan Template
• Competitor Research Template
• Project Proposal Template
• Company Fact Sheet
• Executive Summary Template
• Operational Plan Template
• Pitch Deck Template

7 Tips for Creating a Great One-Pager

1. do not make it look like a boring document.

What’s the most important thing in a one-pager? If you said “content,” think again.

We mean, in a one-pager, content is obviously king, but the way that content is presented is even more important.

Why? Because it’s the first thing someone will notice when they open your one-pager.

So if you don’t want people to bail out on your one-pager, you need to make it look clearer, visually organized, and more appealing.

But there’s a problem – creating documents using Microsoft Word and Google Docs doesn’t always result in the kind of beautiful and professional documents that you need to hook readers.

That’s where Bit.ai can help you!

Using Bit.ai, you can create a  stunning one-pager  that has the perfect format, is easy on the eyes, and engages your audience!

The best part? Bit.ai has over 90 document templates , along with a one-pager template!

Each document template in Bit has awesome tips to get you started writing. You can use Bit templates as a great foundation for your one-pager and all you need to do is personalize the content.

2. Words are NOT Enough, Use Rich Media Too

Videos, images, GIFs, and basically any other rich media are super appealing and we remember them far more than we ever remember boring old facts.

The point being, by embedding rich media in your one-pager, you can create an attractive, easy-to-read one-pager that will surely impress your readers.

Bit.ai has got your back for this task!

With over 100+ integrations Bit lets you add any rich media in your Bit doc in seconds.

All you need to do is copy the shareable link and paste it into your Bit doc. It’s that easy!

3. Collaborate with Your Team Before Finalizing it

Teamwork is dreamwork and we all know that!

To make sure that you don’t miss out on any important thing in your one-pager, do not finalize it without consulting with your team.

If team members will work on the one-pager together and take inputs and ideas from one other, the one-pager is bound to rock.

….and Bit.ai helps you do just that!

Bit allows you and your team to collaborate on a Bit document in real-time and handle different aspects of your one-pager together in one place with powerful co-editing and real-time comments!

4. Use Colors that Match your Brand

Your one-pager should reflect your brand authenticity .

If you nail this, you can attract the right customers to your business and differentiate your business from the competition.

So how can you make a document that reflects your brand personality?

The answer is – using Bit.ai!

Bit allows you to change the look of your entire document.

You can change the theme of the document and update its primary color to match your brand’s color scheme with a click of a button!

5. Keep Track of its Effectiveness 

You all probably know this – the best way to modify something is to evaluate it first.

The only way to make your One Pager the best it could be is by evaluating whether people are reading it, how much they are reading it, and whether they are interacting with it or not.

The answers to these questions will give you an idea regarding the changes you need to make in your one-pager.

But how can you track a piece of a document ? That sounds like a lot of hard work.

Good news for you all – tracking your documents is a piece of cake using Bit.ai.

Bit.ai offers a document tracking feature, where you can gather real-time insights on your shared docs.

That means you can see how much time someone has spent reading your one-pager, how often they come back to read it, how far they’ve scrolled, and a lot more!

6. Use Tables to Provide Clarity

Yes, you can simply just add rows of data like your revenue, profit, and turnover in your one-pager, but there’s a better way to show all of that – tables.

Even if your table is just a few cells, it is always a better choice than typing out complex figures.

If you include a table in your one-pager, readers would be able to grasp your tabular data in a quick glance, rather than having to hunt through text.

Hey! We’re not talking about those dull black and white tables.

We’re talking about the beautiful tables that Bit.ai lets you create!

You can choose between 6 different layouts for tables on Bit and create wonderfully designed tables with the click of a button.

What’s more awesome? The colors of the table will automatically change based on the colors of your document’s theme!

7. Keep it Fully Responsive

This might seem a little out of the box, but there are a lot of times when someone might be viewing your one-pager on their phone or any other device.

Considering that first impression is the last impression, you obviously don’t want to make your one-pager look disheveled right?

So make sure that your one-pager document is fully responsive.

Even though this term might sound a little daunting, it’s actually quite simple when creating a fully responsive one-pager.

All you need is Bit.ai!

Yes, Bit documents are fully responsive. That means your audience can read your one-pager on any device and it’ll still look great!

Summarizing

A one-pager is an important part of your business communication. Make sure you perfect it by bringing in team members from various departments and collaborating to create a one-pager that you are totally satisfied with. There are a few things one must keep in mind before creating a one-pager. These include:

• It should be easy to read and grasp.
• The information mentioned in the one-pager should be brief and concise.
• Make it visually appealing to make it more attention-grabbing and easy to remember.
• Add a clear call-to-action at the end (i.e. include a phone number, your office location, email, your social media links, etc).

So what are you waiting for? Create amazing-looking one-pagers and other workplace documents and start impressing clients, partners, investors, prospects, and your team members with Bit today!

Further reads

• Positioning Statement: Definition, Elements & Examples!
• One Pager Examples with Templates!
• Business Requirements Document (BRD): What, Why, and How to Write?
• Business Report: What is it & How to Write it? (Steps & Format)
• What is a Scope of Work Document & How to Create One Effectively?
• Business Development Plan: What Is It And How To Create A Perfect One?

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How to Use One Pagers with Literature and Informational Texts

Are you googling one pagers because you’re trying to avoid grading yet another stack of essays? I don’t blame you. That’s how I started, too. Or, maybe you are wondering whether a one pager is the right assignment for your students? Maybe it’s that you’re not sure how to create one, when to assign it, or how to provide structure? One pagers can be meaningful as a creative response to literature. Sprinkling them into your ELA curriculum is a powerful way to ask students to reflect upon what they have read. Plus, it lightens your grading load. Keep reading for tips that will help you assign a one pager in your secondary classroom. (P.S. – They aren’t just for ELA!)

WHAT IS A ONE PAGER?

As its name indicates, a one pager is a single page response to a text. They typically focus on showcasing the theme of a narrative or the topic of an informational text. Students include a variety of information to show they can think critically about a story, poem, book, article, video clip, or other text. For example, students might include important quotes, analysis, symbolism, figurative language, themes, images, doodles, connections, questions, and more. One pagers move students beyond basic comprehension to a more mature way of thinking about a text.

WHY ASSIGN A ONE PAGER?

I find one pagers valuable ways to check for understanding. Perhaps you want to see how students are thinking about what they have read. Assigning a one pager can give teachers the insight while still allowing students creativity in expression. One pagers also ask students to move beyond summarizing to a deeper level. Besides, one pagers are an excellent way for non-ELA teachers to promote literacy. Any time students are reading a text (even in science, history, or art class, for instance), they can create a one pager in response.

WHEN SHOULD I ASSIGN A ONE PAGER?

One pagers are excellent forms of differentiation. I enjoy using them as an option for students to respond to a text. Perhaps you’ve just finished grading essays and can’t stand the thought of drowning in yet another stack (already!). One pagers are usually quick and easy to grade, but they still require that students are thinking and making meaning. One pagers are excellent complements to choice reading units, poetry units, short story units, whole class novel units, literature circles, and book clubs. Want to see how students are relating the central idea of paired texts? Use a one pager!

WHAT SHOULD I AVOID WITH A ONE PAGER?

Creating too few or too many guidelines..

It’s important to think about the age of your students. Most middle school students need structure and guidance; students who are not used to thinking from an abstract angle can struggle. Because one pagers are not concrete, teachers need to be specific in their expectations with younger students. High school students who are comfortable with creative thinking and who are used to coloring outside the lines thrive with less scaffolding.

GRADING ON ARTISTIC ABILITY. 

It can be easy to get caught up in beautiful one pagers. If you’ve ever made one yourself, you understand how difficult they really are. It’s important to encourage students for their creative thought process – not their creative drawings or beautiful coloring.

DESIGNING RUBRICS BASED ON EFFORT. 

With creative assignments, it’s important to validate students’ thinking. When we design rubrics based off of perceived effort, we undermine the content students create. A one pager rubric should reflect skills that are tangible and measurable. For example, I would not include a category for “Effort.” Instead, I would include a category for “Content.” Within that category, it would be reasonable to ask students to cover the page with their reflection on the text. It’s something you can measure. Either the page is covered, or it’s not. Effort, on the other hand, is much more difficult to grade objectively.

USING IT TO “PROVE READING”.

Like most reading projects, one pagers don’t “prove” students have read something. Granted, it’s extremely difficult to create an exemplary one pager without a solid understanding of a text. Still, when I assign one pagers, it’s because I want to see how students are analyzing and synthesizing a text. I use them as a way to measure learning toward standards…not a way to  force reading. If you are concerned students aren’t reading a text, the best thing you can do is to confer with them as regularly as possible.

UNDERESTIMATING THE TIME THEY TAKE.

Creating an inspiring one pager takes time. If you’ve never tried to make one before, I encourage you to take on the task before assigning it to students. The first time I did this I was struck by two facts:  mine was terrible …and it took way longer than I expected . I still believe they are worth the time and energy, but creating my own example gave me better perspective for what I should expect from students. Plus, I understood I needed to provide them more class time than I originally anticipated in order to complete the work.

TIPS FOR ONE PAGER SUCCESS

Complete one yourself.  .

Making a one pager was a humbling experience for me. It really gave me insight into my students’ struggles. What was in my head is not what came out on paper. This experience resulted in a more empathetic and appreciative view of the one pagers I graded.

BRAINSTORM WITH STUDENTS.  

Come up with a list of expectations for the assignment. Then, with students, brainstorm possible content to include. Secondary students have fabulous ideas and can inspire one another. Plus, discussing possibilities as a group gives teachers the opportunity to identify appropriate content and redirect students if necessary.

ANALYZE EXAMPLES.  

It’s hard to visualize a one pager without looking at examples . I google “one pager examples” and display some of the search results on the projector. I’ve also saved some examples to Google Classroom so that students can view them from their iPads. As we study the images, students begin to see how different they are. We note what works and what doesn’t. We talk about examples that exceed expectations and those that don’t.

USE TEMPLATES.

Scaffold students’ experience with one pagers by providing templates. Use the templates to help students brainstorm and make a strategic plan for how they will maximize their space. The first time I assigned a one pager, I made all the mistakes…and found out that students don’t always know what to do with a blank page. That’s when I created these materials , which supported their thinking and led them toward the standards.

DON’T BOX YOURSELF IN.  

It’s important that you don’t go into the one pager assignment thinking there are “rules.” There really aren’t! You can be as creative as you want, and students can, too. If they want their one pager to incorporate a mind map or a collage, that works. If you want them to add texture, don’t hesitate. Do you want students to create a one pager that incorporates multiple texts? Awesome! You do you.

USE THE ONE PAGER TO PROMOTE LITERACY.  

It’s all about creating a literacy culture. We need secondary students to appreciate reading – to want to read. Providing students with a variety of ways to respond to a text is a way to achieve that goal. Saving the one pager for special occasions will help to ensure students don’t become burnt out with it. If you feel brave, allow students to work in partners to create a collaborative one pager. Many will love the social aspect of responding to reading. Building positive relationships between reading and how we ask students to respond to literature is a huge step in the process of building a community of readers.

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One pagers are a valuable tool for any teacher. They should not replace all traditional essays, and they shouldn’t be assigned after every course text, but they are a wonderful alternative when used modestly. This resource contains scaffolded tools for getting started with literary and informational text one pagers .

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In the current modern landscape, everything moves at a fast pace. The fast access we have to both data, information, and stimulus has caused a shift in our attention span. This shift has caused most people a downward shift in the length of an average person’s attention span. To keep up with this trend, people have created one-pagers to quickly introduce a topic or subject.

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What Is a One-Pager

The one-pager is a document that concisely and accurately describes a topic or subject on one page, hence the name. One-pagers allow readers to quickly go through its contents, ensuring that the document holds their attention span. People can design the one-pager with various pictures, infographics, images, and symbols to enhance the overall look and design of the one-pager.

How to Make a One-Pager

There are plenty of ways to make, create and design a one-pager . You can  create a one-pager with any topic you can think about; for instance, you can make a marketing plan one-pager, a business plan one-pager , or even a one-pager about marine biology. Just note that a one-pager should only have enough information to be covered on one page. If you are still wondering what a one-pager should look like feel free to peruse the one-pager examples and one-pager templates on the list above.

1.) Create an Outline for The One-Pager

Begin by creating an outline of the one-pager . The outline will include the title of the topic, categories, sub-categories, content, and the closing statement of the one-pager. Note that you don’t have to write anything too comprehensive in the outline; you can also opt to create a bulleted list of the content you want to put in the one-pager.

2.) Conceptualize a Theme for The One-Pager

The one-pager will need to have a design and a theme. This design and theme can be either simple or intricate as long as it is related to the subject or topic. Some one-pagers will have pictures, infographics, and images, whilst others will just have colored dividers and lines.

3.) Type or Write Down the One-Pager

You will now need to write down everything you have finalized and written down on your outline. Each category or sub-category should be composed of one to two paragraphs that concisely summarize the information. This is also the part where you will insert any infographics, images, and designs into your one-pager.

4.) Edit the One-Pager

After you have completed writing your one-pager , you will now have to review and edit the content of your one-pager. You can either manually review the one-pager yourself or ask for feedback from a person who knows the subject well enough. The only thing you must ensure is that the information is factually correct and delivered concisely.

What is the goal of a one-pager?

The one-pager should be able to produce a concise and accurate depiction of a specific topic or subject. This depiction or description should obtain the attention of the target audience and will entice them to learn more about the specific topic or subject. Thus the overall goal of a one-pager is to grab the attention of the target audience with an apt description of a specific topic.

What is the optimal reading time a one-pager should have?

A one-pager should be comprehensive, concise, and accurate, but most importantly it should be short and can be read in one sitting. One-pagers will usually have around three to six minutes of reading time. Though this reading time will only act as a guideline as there are one-pagers that can take seven or eight minutes of reading time, especially if the subject or topic is fully loaded.

When is the right time to create a one-pager?

It is best to create a one-pager when you want to introduce a person to a specific subject or topic. The one-pager will act as an introduction to the specific subject or topic, as it will explain the overview of said subject or topic. Companies and businesses can use one-pagers to attract the attention of prospective partners and consumers. If you are planning to introduce someone to a subject, topic, company, or business then you should make a one-pager to act as the method to attract the attention of the person.

A one-pager is a fun and convenient way to introduce someone to a specific subject or topic. This is because one-pagers do not rely on keeping the target audience’s attention span for a long time.

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• Feb 3, 2020

By Vickie Harri, EdD

Not too long ago the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Coordinator at my middle school sent an email requesting teachers to share their one-pagers (also known as one-sheets) with her for our AVID revalidation. My response was simply “one-what?” I had never heard of such a thing. Then, someone on the CSTA middle school science teacher Facebook group posted a type of alternative assessment where students interact with their learning by drawing, labeling, and writing by utilizing notebooks and other instructional resources. This, I was informed, was a one-pager.  One-pagers were developed by AVID and are a “creative response to your learning experience. It allows you to respond imaginatively while being brief and concise in making connections between words and images. We think about what we see and read differently when we are asked to do something with what we have seen or read. We learn best when we create our own ideas. Your personal thinking about what you have experienced should be understood by the audience that views the One-Pager.”

The objective of one-pagers is for students to be able to “express comprehension of, reactions to, and connections with a specific topic or piece of text.”  Betsy Potash states that one-pagers provide a variety of and a way for students to share what they’ve learned beyond the typical question/answer options.  Learning becomes more memorable as students mix images with information.  One-pagers also allow students’ creativity to come out in powerful displays of learning.

So, what are the components of a one-page assignment?  One-pagers use white unlined paper and are colorful, with the entire page filled with text and diagrams.  According to the AVID Teacher’s Guide, one-pagers should have excerpts from the reading or text, graphic representations of their learning, and a personal response.

When I assigned my first one-pager on the formation of the universe I had my students include a title, an essential question, and a colored border demonstrating the concept we were studying.  We also included three drawings of the universe, before, during and after the big bang and, of course, a written description of each drawing.  I had them write and answer five questions using Costa’s Levels of questions as well.  Finally, they wrote a summary answering the essential question.  Some advocates of one-pagers provide their students with templates to use in the execution of the assignment.  I chose not to provide a template because I felt it limited student creativity. As I teach 8th grade, the assignment took longer than I expected (three days instead of two), but the creativity and learning was worth the extra time.

For assessment, I created a simple rubric listing the requirements of the assignment; title, essential question, border, drawings with written description, five questions and answers, summary, full color, and creativity. The grading categories were Met, Somewhat Met and Did Not Meet. My students enjoyed doing the one-pagers, creating some spectacular projects, and as a teacher, they gave me a good indication of their learning and understanding of the concept.  And as an added bonus, they look really good on the classroom wall.  All the pictures are samples of student work.

Resources: Cult of Pedagogy - A Simple Trick for Success with One-pagers AVID Middle Level Writing with Integrated Reading and Oral Language Teacher Guide Vickie Harri, EdD.  is an 8th grade science teacher at Oaks Middle School in the Ontario-Montclair School District and a CSTA member.

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