Writing Activities for young learners

Activity 1

Challenge your students to write a sentence they hear, or to write a sentence about a picture using a set of letters. Or, as I had great fun doing, cut out words from old magazines and make sentences with them:

 After creating the above sentence, I started changing the adjective:

You could also challenge your students to change the other words in the original sentence, and build as many sentences as possible.  For example:

• What a great holiday!
• Having a wild holiday!
• Have a great day!
• Have a slow week!

Activity 2

In my previous article, I shared ideas for getting students to write words on small post-its and stick them in their coursebooks.  This would also work very well with sentences.

In the below image, I’ve written sentences about the three pictures on bookmark post-its and stuck them on the pictures.

 Alternatively, instead of writing sentences, students could write speech bubbles for things that people are thinking or saying.  This would be a great way of practising the exclamations and expressions on the Movers wordlist, for example – try and find a place where a person is saying:

• Excuse me!   
• All right!   
• Of course!
• What’s the matter?
• Pardon?  
• Here you are. 

 https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2018/05/04/young-learners-write-sentences/