Melville Brainstorms

Essay Map

From www.readwritethink.org - April 21, 9:47 AM

"The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.

Expository writing is an increasingly important skill for elementary, middle, and high school students to master. This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic in the upper right-hand corner that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion. The finished map can be saved, e-mailed, or printed."

Dennis T OConnor's insight:

Using systems that break the writing process into steps helps guide students through to a first draft.  Guidance builds confidece. Well worth a visit and possible wide scale use in your classroom.