Essay Writing Mapping for Success for Middle & High School Students
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Grade Levels
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSW.K.1
CCSSW.K.2
CCSSW.K.3
CCSSW.K.5
CCSSW.K.6
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
68 pages
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Description
- The stakes have risen for students to demonstrate competence in writing. While educators across the curriculum are working to improve student performance, the gap between what is expected of student writers and what student writers are able to do continues to widen. This writing guide was born in an effort to help educators find a simple way to present basic writing skills. Designed for the instruction of expository, persuasive, and literary analysis essays, Mapping for Success scaffolds necessary skills and begins the writer’s journey toward control of his or her writing.
- This guide presents a simple process that, with guided instruction, is capable of helping students better organize and elaborate their writing. What sets this method apart from other approaches to writing essays is its easy-to-understand format that allows teachers to bring their own creativity to the student's writing process while equipping students with a visual cue to help develop their ideas.
- This method is not meant to create a new vocabulary for students and teachers to learn; rather, it is purposefully designed so that students’ existing knowledge about writing can be easily tapped when beginning to map out a new essay. The term ‘Mapping’ has been identified simply to accentuate the need for students to plan their essays before beginning their initial drafts.
- Used as a scaffold, this method can be taught successfully in middle and high school. Pages within this booklet are meant to be photocopied and used in the classroom, as the graphic display of content organization is the primary strategy that will assist students when they are required to write for an assignment or a high-stakes test.
- As with all good scaffolds, the intent is to move students past the scaffold as soon as they are capable.
Total Pages
68 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
1 Year
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSW.K.1
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).
CCSSW.K.2
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
CCSSW.K.3
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
CCSSW.K.5
With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
CCSSW.K.6
With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
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