Writing activities for helping your students to improve their writing skills.

1. Writing
Activities To
Improve Your
Students’
Writing Skills

2. Creating Classroom Journals For Students

3. u In this writing activity, teachers only need
to bring journals and colored pens.
u This is a great activity and students will
definitely feel excited. The main objective
of tis activity is to express self.
u Teachers tell students to write about
anything they did yesterday or during the
last week.
u Students can write about their daily
routines, favorite movies, and hobbies.
Students will be more than happy to write
about themselves. They will even feel
excited if you ask them to express their
feelings.
u After writing, you ask students to exchange
places and read their classmates’ journals.

4. Using Index Cards
uTeachers can use index cards. Instead of assigning
regular homework on a copybook, teachers can tell
students use index cards to write about a funny story
they want to share with classmates.
Next session when they are in class, teachers collect the
cards and randomly distribute them and ask students to
read them.

5. Story Completion

6. v Teachers can design templates of stories with pictures and a few words distributed
systematically throughout the story and ask students to use those words and the
pictures to complete the story.
v This is a fun way to get students to write.
v Teachers will definitely be surprised of students’ creativity and imagination.
v Here is a Story completion worksheet.

7. Happy
New Year
Letters

8. Happy New Year Letters
THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST
WRITING ACTIVITIES TEACHERS
CAN USE WITH THEIR
STUDENTS.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
NEW YEAR, TEACHERS ASK
STUDENTS TO WRITE LETTERS
FOR THEIR CLASSMATES IN
WHICH THEY EXPRESS THEIR
WISHES.
STUDENTS CAN EXCHANGE
THE LETTERS AMONG THEM.
THIS REALLY ENCOURAGES
STUDENTS TO WRITE AND
LEARN NEW WORDS TO
EXPRESS THEMSELVES.

9. Retelling Favorite Story

10. u Teachers can often ask their students to write
about a story they like and inspired them.
u Students can write about a real story, something
that happened to them or just a story a movie
story.
u Students will learn to use descriptive adjectives to
describe people and places and also the
narrative style.

11. Word
Challenge
Teachers can also use the
word challenge activity.
In this activity, teachers
can pick a word they
have just taught to their
students and ask them to
put it in a sentence.
Students read the
sentences aloud, and
then teachers ask them to
exchange the sentences
and write a story using the
sentence as a prompt.
This is a fun way to
practice creative writing
skills with your students.

12. Story Chains

13. u It is a collaborative activity for learners.
u Teachers divide the class into groups and
jot down a prompt on the board, and
then ask students to take a piece of
paper and a pen. Teachers ask one
student from each group to write
something in one minute and then pass
the paper to the next student in the same
group to finish from where the first
students stopped.
u The main objective is to have students
write a coherent story through teamwork.

14. References
• Teaching Utopians (2021), 8 Amazing Writing
Activities To Improve Your Students’ Writing Skills.
Retrieve from:
https://teachingutopians.com/2021/02/02/8-
amazing-writing-activities-to-improve-your-students-
writing-skills/