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Create a Table of Contents for Your Writing

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ELA: Writing ^21st Century Skills K-8 Strategy

Skills

Organization Verbal Reasoning

Create a Table of Contents for Your Writing

If your student needs a structured approach to organize their ideas for a writing assignment

How To Apply It!

  1. Outline your ideas in the form of a table of contents to help you narrow down topics and organize ideas for a paper or book.
  2. Start with your main topic as the title.
  3. Identify your chapter titles and write them as you would see in a table of contents. If you're writing an essay, the chapter titles would be the points or examples supporting your main topic.
  4. Under each title, bullet a few details you will include. If you don't have at least three bullets per title, consider combining chapters.
  5. Use your table of contents to write your paper, essay or book.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Using a familiar and comfortable organizational structure can help students brainstorm and organize ideas.