Helping students build genre awareness is one of the most powerful goals you can include in an ESL creative writing activity. When learners understand how purpose and audience shape language, they begin to write with more confidence, strategy, and control. This lesson uses a single complex photo as the foundation for multiple writing modes. It’s a flexible ESL writing lesson you can use in high school, university, or adult classrooms. It naturally supports ESL classroom activities, creative ESL prompts, ESL writing practice, and even conditional writing practice if you choose to extend it.
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Unlock The Benefits of Choose Your Own Adventure Writing
Teaching writing in ESL classrooms can sometimes feel repetitive. Essays, summaries, and letters are essential, but they don’t always spark excitement. That’s where Choose Your Own Adventure writing activities come in. By letting students create branching storylines, teachers can transform writing lessons into interactive experiences that build language skills, creativity, and engagement.
ESL Creative Writing Activity: The “What If” Alternate History Journal
If you teach writing to high-school or university English learners, you probably know the struggle: students often fall back on predictable paragraphs about hobbies, daily routines, or weekend plans. Useful, yes, but not always inspiring. Try this twist: an alternate history writing prompt.
10 AI Lesson Ideas for Writing Teachers
How can ESL teachers use AI to teach writing? Sounds strange because some of us, like me, tried the avoidance strategy. No AI in this writing class, I thought. I was delighted with the results but realized some accommodation is required. AI ain’t going away. Here are a few AI lesson ideas to help teachers use AI and not feel like it’s taking over.