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Tuesday, September 03, 2002
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Students in New York learn
to write better essays with Inspiration

Students across the state of New York use Inspiration to prepare for The New York State Regents Comprehensive Examination in English. Taken during a student's junior year, a passing score on the exam is a requirement for high school graduation.

Essays make up a significant portion of the test, and require students to analyze and interpret information to write clear, organized responses. New York teachers find that using Inspiration helps students prepare for the test by learning to organize their thoughts and write clearer essays.

Organizing for writing
Sister Rosemarie Baglivio, CSJ, an English and study skills teacher at Bishop Kearney High School in Brooklyn (and a 2002 Inspired Teacher Scholarship winner), has used Inspiration for the past two years with her ninth and tenth grade students.

According to Baglivio, the biggest problems her students face in writing are poor organization and a lack of critical thinking skills. Inspiration helps her students develop and organize their thoughts, enabling them to write better essays.

Baglivio creates a variety of Inspiration activities to prepare students for the Regents exam. For example, one section of the exam presents students with a quote from a literary work and requires students to respond with an essay discussing the quote using two additional pieces of literature.

To practice this skill, Baglivio gives her students a quote from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and asks them to write an essay discussing the quote, pulling in examples from the text. The class first discusses what makes a good essay response using the scoring rubric from the Regents exam. Baglivio then shows them how to use Inspiration to organize their essay.

Her students use an Inspiration template she created to help them organize their work to develop a fuller, more focused written response.

Using Inspiration helps Baglivio's students prepare for the Regents exam, but visual learning has also become a larger part of their learning.

"They really enjoy using it to organize for writing," says Baglivio. "Many of them have started to organize other papers in Inspiration—even when it is not required."

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When working in either Inspiration or Kidspiration,
symbols are used to represent concepts and ideas,
while links are used to connect ideas and show the relationship between them.

You can customize the appearance of your links, add text to them, or even include hyperlinks on them.

Add text to a link in Inspiration or Kidspiration
Adding text to a link further explains the relationship between the two linked ideas.

Link text is often used in concept maps, a specific kind of graphical organizer.

To add text to a link in Inspiration or Kidspiration,
1. Click on the link where you want the text to appear. A text box will appear.
2. Begin typing to add your text. Click elsewhere on the diagram to finish entering your text and show the label.
3. To move the position of link text, simply click on the link and grab and drag the handle on the bottom of the text box.

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