Comments of the activities to work on ‘writing’ (last hand-out)

A great variety of activities can be found in this hand-out to work on ‘writing’, either it be prose or verse. Some of these activities are:

·         Make a poem from a shopping list.

·         Guided writing of a murder mystery plan.

·         Write and interview to a witch. (Guided writing).

·         Create a personal assistant. (Guided writing).

·         Guess the genre (Join genres with some blurbs, also write your own blurb and see if your   partner can guess the type of book).

·         Create an information poster.

·         Ask students to write poems following a model.

We think all these activities are suitable enough to work with primary school students, either it be in a first or second language. However, the activities we like most and attract our attention are:

·         Guided writing of a murder mystery plan.

·         Create a personal assistant.

These two activities are guided-writing examples. We have chosen them because they are well designed. In addition, they follow a logic structure and they can be attractive and motivating to students.

Among the activities to create a poem, the following one attracts our attention for its originality:

·         Make a poem from a shopping list. 

It is a really original and amusing way to create a poem, something that is usually difficult to get.

With regard to the rest of activities, we must point out that it is good that they follow a progression in guided-writing (some of them are more guided than others), thus we will be able to make the task easier to our students.

Made by: Cristina Muñoz and Pablo Pérez