Writing+Activities

Writing can be a boring task for students, so it can be a good idea to use a stimulation for encouraging them to write. I like using videos in my class to involve many students' senses. They can use a video to summarize, answer questions, anticipate, say their opinion. A video can do many purposes. I am attaching this video which you might find interesting.

Activities that can be done with this video are: 1- Students can write a story. 2-They can also write what will happen after or before. 3- A teacher can give them a sentence off the topic a little and they try to connect it to the video. 4- They can write a dialog for this video. 5- They can use specific tense, connectors, a rule, or just tell them that other characters appeared after that.

Jigsaw Game:

Teacher can bring students different comic strips and put students in groups. Then, each team takes a comic strip and describes it. Then, the teacher puts students into different teams in which each team has one student representing one picture. They have to decide the order of the story and write the whole story.

Reading and Creative writing:

when reading a dialogue from a story or play, project it onto the board, erasing some words or phrases. Have students work in teams to write the missing words. Encourage students to think of the funniest or most interesting captions to complete the gaps. Then, have teams vote for the funniest options. This activity promotes reading and creative writing while at the same time practices speaking and listening skills as students must understand what others are saying and express their own ideas.

Running Dictation:

A running dictation game also gets students out of their seats and involves the four skills. Prepare and print a short text and place it at the front of the classroom. Have students work in pairs or small groups and decide on who will be the writer and who will be the runner. If students are working in small groups, have the non-writers take turns being runners. Tell the runners in each team to read the text and memorize as much as possible before returning to their team and dictating what they read to the writer. Tell students that the text must be as accurate as possible, including correct spelling and punctuation. With advanced groups, you can add italics, bold, parenthesis, etc. to make the text more challenging. Once teams have finished writing, hand out a copy of the text for them to check their work. This is an excellent and motivating game that can be adapted for both younger and older learners.

Taken from: http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2015/04/30/childrens-day-motivating-students-through-games/

These are very good websites for graduate students and has parts for writing: [|Activities for Writing]

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