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Visual Mapping Organizer & Writing Tool

Ability Level-Grades 2-9 • Interest Level-Grades 2-12

Do your struggling learners spend enough time planning and organizing their ideas before they write them down?

	RESEARCH shows that this is true for many students: they just do not spend the time to process their thoughts into a cohesive draft form.

Skills:

Organizing, planning, draft-writing, essay writing, thinking skills

Education Programs:

Benefits all students in any writing project and is especially useful for students with autism, dyslexia and students with learning disabilities

Instructional Focus:

6+1 Traits, Step Up to Writing, Project CRISS, Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)

Using Draft:Builder, a writing software technology that breaks down the writing process, your students will enjoy the pre-writing process and ultimately write effective essays and papers as they:

build better visual maps to prepare their plans and goals
construct visual outlines to organize their ideas
take better notes to emphasize and process important facts

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Draft:Builder will enable your students to write a paper or report that they can be proud of! Draft:Builder is an effective technology tool for students with IEPs, at-risk students, poor writers, students with dyslexia, exceptional-needs students and students who need more practice to build effective writing concepts.

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