Write an Analysis
Writing Skills: idea, organisation, analysis, analogies
Is life a journey, or something else?
This guided writing activity helps ESL students tackle that question with a simple framework to develop a thoughtful answer.
six writing traits
Teach English Writing Skills: Mini Saga
Write Short Stories
Writing Skills: idea, organisation, sentence fluency, cohesion
Teachers sometimes need a short activity to fill a time gap, but don’t want a time waster. Here’s a good choice. It helps ESL students learn and practice a combination of English writing skills in one compact, easy to explain activity.
Basic Writing: Week 3
Learn English Writing
Review
Last week, we did this:
- learned about noun modifiers to write better sentences that give lots of information with fewer words
- wrote a creative story based on a picture prompt to improve idea focus, paragraphs, organisation and word choice
- wrote a mini saga to improve paragraph, organisation, sentence fluency and idea focus
- learned about a website to improve listening skills
Teach English Writing Skills: A Nifty Lesson About Articles
Writing with Articles
Articles are tricky. Those small, pesky words – a, an the – cause students learning English a good deal of uncertainty. Here’s a three-part lesson with loads of activities to help students learn and practice the proper usage of articles.