WRITING

ACTIVITIES
SENTENCE WRITING
Didacting Sentencens
for Completion
Writing Sentence
A very simple way
of getting students
to write creatively
isto dictate part of
a sentence which
they then have to
complete about
themselves.
Students can be
asked to write two
or three sentence
about a certain
topic
USING MUSIC
Words
What is the Composer
Describing
One activity is to
playa pice of music
and have studentes
write down any
words that come
into their heads as
they listen.
A lot of music is
written yo describe
particular scenesor
places.
USING PICTURES
Describing pictures Suspencts and objects
One way of getting
students to write
about pintures is
simply to ask them to
write a description of
one .
A variation on picture
description is to give
students a variety of
pictures and ask them
to write about omly
one of them.
COLLABORATIVE WRITE
Using the board
Sentence by sentence
One way of making
collaborative writing
successful is to have
students write on the
board
Letter in reply to an
invitation on the board,
sentece by sentence.
Each time a new student
goes up to the boart in
such activities , the rest of
the class( or the group
that student represents)
can help by offering
suggetions, corrections,
or alternatives.
COLLABORATIVE WRITE
Dictogloss
Whiting in groups and
pairs
Dictogloss is useful
for vocabulary
acquisitions too in
very much the same
way. And on top of
that it is especially
appropriate for
building the writing
habit.

There are amany
activities which are
suitable for students
writing in pairs and
group some of them
dependend on a scribe
to write the final version
of the piece, whilw
some of them involve
every single person
writing their own version
of the text.
COLLABORATIVE WRITING
Rewriting(and
expeanding) sentences

Firs lines, last lines
In one sentence
rewriting activity,
students are
presented with a
stereotypical
statement and asked
to amend it to reflect
the opinions of the
group.
Just as pictures can
be used to provoke
story writing, so first
and last lines of
posisible stories can
also be used to get
studentsimagination
going.
COLLABORATIVE WRITE
Directions, rules,
instructions
Story reconstruction
A really usefull activity
is to ask students to
write instruccional text
for others to follow.
This could take the
form of writing
directions to a place.
We can en hance the
value of the story
activities which
involve a sequence of
pictures by adding a
jigsaw element.
WRITING TO EACH OTHER
Pen pals, e-mails, and
live chat
Letters backwards
Teachers have always
encouraged students
to correspond with
pen pals from different
towns or countries.
We can move on from
the kinds of notes an
e.mails we have been
looking at by getting
students to write
letters to each other.