I �m very interested in activities , games or ideas to teach writing.  I think that the problem comes when students need to write fluently and they can �t because they are not used to  doing it  from an early age.   I also think that we should devote more time to writing in the classroom, but I find it difficult to do.

Have you got any ideas or do you know any interesting bookmarks?

Thanks a lot

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I know a bit how to motivate children to make them ready to write..

 

just read the below.Hope it would help you,

 

1. Give them a little story printed on a paper.

2.They need to collect relevant material from the passage, re-organize it and present in the form of narration.

3.it is suggested that the topic for writing may be discussed in detail in class,but the actual writing may,as far as possible, be done at home.

4.while correcting the work done by the pupils keep in mind that you should concentrate on

 

a) mechanics: handwriting, spelling, puncuation, etc

b)Language: words, sentence structure, grammar,etc

c)content:ideas, facts, arguments,etc.,

d)style: choice of words,variety in sentence structure etc.,

 

It might be a bit tough when you read this..but when u put it in practice it would be really helpful.

 

Take any short story you and they really know better.

 

Ask them to take any character they like

 

Give them the whole idea of the story

 

make them have a role play

 

after that let them document the same free flowing dialogues on a paper

 

then you correct them and prepare them with proper grammatical structure

 

Show them the difference..

 

Hope it would help you...

 

If u find this good..

I feel happy ...if not please let me know .. I �ll definately try to givein some more inputs..

 

Feel free to ask me..

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Thank you so much...

I think I have to try harder.  this is one of my goals for this year starting in September

Thanks again

Regards

Rosahi

I think this depends on age and skill of the kids but I teach at a public school in China and many of my students I only see twice a month so I always start class with a writing prompt in a journal.

 

If it is the end of the school year I ask them what they liked about class or want to change next year, if it is the beginning of the year I ask them to write about their goals this year and in the middle of the year I will have them write about freind family home movie stars anything I find that fits the topic.

 

For me it is just the beginning of each class and its just 10 minutes of writing time some kids write a paragraph some write 2 lines.

 

The secret is not asking questions that let them answer yes or no.

 

Really there are books for sale that have writing prompts for every day of the year for different grade levels and if you search around you can also find writing prompts online but I think they are awesome and at the end of the school year its great to see what some of these kids have to say about what they wish was different about their school.   If you do this try to give them a couple questions to choice from about a topic but tell them go with it if you want me to share some of the writing prompts I have send me a note.

Good luck!

Anita

I liked the ideas on the powerpoint below that encourages creatie writing in a target foreign language.