ClassFlow
Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Tree Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Planning
Tips for planning an essay. Links to additional information on the topics Assess the Situation, Think about Writing Ideas, How to Write a Thesis Statement, and How to Write an Outline are provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Web
This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: The Research Paper in Progress
Follow a student reasearch paper from prewriting to drafting to final copy, and read the student tutor's comments along the way. This site provides links through several successive pages.
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Thinking Maps Multi Flow Map
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teach your students to visualize the writing process using this graphic organizer as a tool.
Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University: Getting Papers Started
This site from the Cleveland State University suggests using "invention techniques" to focus on a topic, find a controlling idea, and generate examples. Goes on the describe several types of invention techniques.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State University: Freewriting
Explains freewriting and gives samples.