Strengthen Your Writing Activity
A writing revision and editing checklist activity to help students strengthen a piece of writing with peer and teacher feedback.
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A writing revision and editing checklist activity to help students strengthen a piece of writing with peer and teacher feedback.
A writing activity that guides students through planning and drafting an informative/explanatory text on a chosen topic.
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around an informational passage on the history and institutions of the European Union.
A creative writing activity where students compare the pig's and wolf's versions of the Three Little Pigs story and write an official police statement from the point of view they believe.
Editable end-of-year reflective writing activity where students create a soundtrack representing memorable events of their school year and write a reflective letter about their song choices.
A creative writing/role-play activity where students act as paparazzi reporting on characters from Little Red Riding Hood.
An interactive PowerPoint writing/reading activity built around an animated short film 'Llama Drama', teaching sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summarizing.
ESL/ELA reading comprehension and writing-skills practice built around a nonfiction feature article on New Delhi, India (world cities), for older English-language learners.
A diary-writing-prompt activity based on 'The Three Little Pigs' folktale, prompting students to write in-character diary entries from the perspective of the wolf or the pigs.
This is a "My Restaurant" Creative Writing Activity . You will print off the writing pages for students to choose from. They will write about their restaurant and illustrate it using the included clipart. Then students will create a menu list with prices.
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative writing.
A creative-writing activity where students invent a superhero-sidekick story using a choice board (character, setting, problem, solution), then write and self-edit a short story.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction-style informational passage about Tintin - Comic Book, used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and extended written response in English.
A creative-writing activity using a 'wanted poster' format to have students describe the villain (Big Bad Wolf) from Three Little Pigs.
Provide handwriting/pre-writing tracing practice ("TRACING BOOK - 13 PAGES" per the file's own cover text); the specific letters, numbers, or shapes to be traced are not stated in the extractable text.
Teach students what a persuasive essay is and how to write one (choosing a topic, weighing both sides, structuring an argument) via an interactive Google Slides activity, plus a printable pro/con and true-or-false worksheet, accessed through this PDF.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction-style informational passage about Tennis - Sports, used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and extended written response in English.
A one-page nonfiction reading passage about the Eurovision Song Contest, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false questions and one or more opinion/argumentative essay writing prompts, for ESL/EFL reading and writing practice.
An ESL/EFL reading-comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction passage on the history and practice of dog sledding (mushing), including the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, from its Indigenous Arctic origins to modern competitive racing.
Give ESL/EFL students reading-comprehension, vocabulary, and opinion/comparison-writing practice using a nonfiction passage on the history and culture of ski resorts.
ESL/ELA reading comprehension and writing-skills practice built around a nonfiction feature article on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (world cities), for older English-language learners.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction-style informational passage about The History of Aviation, used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and extended written response in English.
Gives ESL/EFL teen learners a reading-comprehension and essay-writing practice activity built around a biographical passage on Freddie Mercury and the band Queen.
ESL/ELA reading comprehension and writing-skills practice built around a nonfiction feature article on Mamma Mia! (musical theatre), for older English-language learners.