FUN ACTIVITIES FOR WRITING

I have been reading  some articles about writing skill and i found good activities in order to students can develop this skill. i modified some activities to make them easy. If you are interested to read some articles about education, you can follow me through this blog or follow me through mi pinterest count as Melanie Ponce(Lima-Peru).

i hope you like it and put this activities in practice.

Shopping

We can use the weekly shopping trip (like grocery list) as an opportunity to help students to develop reading and writing skills.

Students will need:

Paper and pencils

What to do:

Ask students to think , what kind of things they usually buy when they go to a supermarket?.

Students have to create their own grocery list,teacher have to give  students a sheet of paper in order to they write their ideas. Teacher can provide help giving them some ideas about what they can buy, also teacher can help them with the spelling.

Shopping

We can use the weekly shopping trip (like grocery list) as an opportunity to help students to develop reading and writing skills.

Students will need:

Paper and pencils

What to do:

Ask students to think , what kind of thing they usually buy when they go to a supermarket?.

Students have to create their own grocery list,teacher have to give  students a sheet of paper in order to they write their ideas. Teacher can provide help giving them some ideas about what they can buy, also teacher can help them with the spelling

Journals 

Keeping a journal is a way for students to write down daily events and record his or her thoughts.

Students will need:

one notebook.

What to do:

We can helps students to start a journal. They can write about different topics such as making a new friend, an interesting school, university or home activity that they just have completed, or about  how students felt on the first day of class.  Teachers has to encourage them to come up with other ideas. At the end of the week, students can share some activities that they wrote on the notebook

Greetings

Everyone loves to get mail, especially when the card has been personally designed.

What you'll need:

Paper and pencils

Crayons and magic markers

What to do:

Ask your students to list the birthdays of family members, relatives, and friends. Show your students some  birthday cards with funny, serious, or thought-provoking messages. Your students can then create his or her own birthday card by using a folded piece of paper, making an attractive cover, and writing a short verse inside.

Message in a Bottle

To help students with writing. Have the students choose from these:

If a genie gave you three wishes, "What would they be?"

You found a bottle with some mysterious paper inside, "What was written on the paper?"

What to do:

After the students have written their papers, the teacher can take used water bottles and insert all  the student messages(if we dont have a bottle, we can replace it using a box) then teacher can start to read,  one by one, what the paper said.

PS: this activity can be anonimously  in order to students dont feel shamed.

I Love You the Purplest

What to do:

Have each student choose a color to write a poem about. For example, one student may entitle their poem, "I Love You the Greenest" and write about why he choose this color for example, color green reminds them of the meadown grass or the majestic pines found in the mountains.

Who Am I?

What to do:

This is a fun activity. Students have to think in 1 animal that they want to write clues about. Remember to tell students to keep it TOP SECRET! Then they have to write a little story. The really fun parts comes when it is time to exchange stories with their classmates and see if they can guess each other's animals!

TYPES OF LISTENING

DIFFERENT TYPES OF LISTENING

APPRECIATIVE LISTENING

In this kind of listening, Student’s gains pleasure/satisfaction from listening, they enjoy the story. We use appreciative listening when we are listening music, poetry.
These are personal preferences and may have been shaped through student’s experiences and expectations.



INFORMATIVE LISTENING
The aim of this listening is to concentrate and gain correct information from the speaker in this kind of listening you reserve judgment. For example in church listening to a sermon, in conferences, or while you are hearing directions or instructions, students are listening to pick out the key points to understand the message.




CRITICAL LISTENING
Listening in order to evaluate, criticize or otherwise pass judgment on what someone else says. Students were able to recognize this kind of listening while attending a political ceremony or in a debate, in those situations, students could learn to hear the communication and identify arguments and key points.



DISCRIMINATIVE LISTENING
Here the listener is able to identify and distinguish emotions when the speaker’s change their voice tone, use of pause, etc. Someone who is expert in discriminative listening, will realize how the body language change in tone and volume to detect what the speaker is thinking and feeling
For example a person saying “its fine” with the arms crossed it means that is not fine at all. This example is very useful to identify discriminatory listening.






EMPATHIC (REFLECTIVE) LISTENING

This is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust, here the listener tends to listen rather than talk.
The emphasis is to try to understand the feelings of the other person being supportive and patient.

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