3rd Grade Writing We  using  thinking maps to organize ALL of our writing before we write our rough drafts.  Students' writing is much more organized when these maps are used.  Many times students will want to skip the maps and go right to their rough drafts, but going through the maps makes all of our writing better! To view the thinking maps we will be using when we are pre-writing click on each link below. circle map tree map flow map opening/closing paragraph tree maps