Games to improve writing skills

Fun Writing Games to Encourage Your Kids to Write

No one ever said that parenting was easy, especially if you’re one of those parents who is struggling with helping their kids with school work. Many children are not fans of writing or any activities that involve writing. Luckily for you, this list is a lot of different and exciting writing games to create a love of writing in your kids so they can write more and have fun doing it.

1. Telephone Pictionary

This game is really engaging and will promote creativity with your children while at the same time pushing them to write. If you have more players it will go better, and all you need is paper and pencils. Every player simply writes a sentence on the paper and passes the paper on. The next player will draw what is represented by the sentence and fold down the paper so only the drawing is visible, then passes the sheet.

The next player will write a sentence that describes the drawing and fold the sheet to keep only their sentence visible. The paper keeps going around in this way until it’s full. Then, all players can compare the original sentence with what happened later for laughs.

2. Story Telling

In this game, you also only need paper and pencils, and all kids will get to write a story together. Onboard, you can write the first sentence of the tale. Then, over the next two minutes, the children will write down the next step of the story. After two minutes, their paper goes to someone else who will continue the story. These papers go around a few times until such time as the story is done. Then, you can enjoy sharing the different and funny stories that were created.

3. Fill in the Blanks

For this game, you need some story sheets with blank spots. According to Rick Steele, an educator at Academized and Ox Essays, “to play, you just have to give the sheet to your child and they will fill in the blanks however they want by using their imagination. Then, you can read the finished story together afterward. ”

It can be difficult to get your children to write if they don’t like it, but there’s a lot of writing games that can make the process more exciting.

4. Birthday Cards

Every time there is a family birthday or special event, or during the holidays, you can get your children to write the birthday card. This will make them speak their thoughts about their family members as well as encouraging them to write in the process.

5.Cursive Name Writing

This game can be exciting to learn to write in cursive. You can take a sheet and fold it in half. Ask your children to write their names in cursive in large script, along the top of the folded crease. They can trace over the writing time and time again, then they can go over the folded piece until they create a mirror image on the other side of the sheet. Then they can cut out their names until the writing looks like a large bug.

6. Challenge for Vocabulary Terms

This game is better for children that can write comfortably and are more than six years old. You can give your child a new word and tell them what the meaning is. Then, Henrietta Fillon, a tutor at Big Assignments and Elite Assignment Help, says “you can challenge them to write a sentence with the new word in it. You can also ask your child to write a complete story about this word if you have time for it. You can also ask for drawings if they don’t enjoy writing much.”

7. Comic Strip Fun

This activity is better for older children who already know how to read and write, especially if they like storytelling. You can get some comic strips for your children and ask them to fill out the dialogue bubbles (which should be blank, to begin with). Then, challenge them to make it more exciting. They can also draw with crayons to make more colors and liven up the comic strip.

It can be difficult to get your children to write if they don’t like it, but there’s a lot of writing games that can make the process more exciting. By spending time with your children to focus on learning to write, they will prosper and learn to enjoy writing.

About the author: Ellie Coverdale, a writer for UK Writings and Essayroo, shares her thoughts and opinions on education and writing. She loves fostering a desire to read and write in children and stresses the importance of writing skills for all people, regardless of age. In her spare time, she teaches writing skills for Boom Essays.

10 Quick and Fun Writing Games Students and Teachers Love

The best writing games to engage students

A colleague of mine recently shared these ten great writing game ideas to improve literacy skills in the classroom.  They are simple to play and can be applied to nearly all year levels. 

These are some of the best writing games that require minimal or no setup time and are an excellent option for substitute teachers looking to quickly break the ice with students or English teachers just seeking fresh ideas to brighten up their lessons. Enjoy.

Remember that if you are looking for more excellent free resources and structured guides to teaching all aspects of English, especially writing, be sure to visit literacyideas.com.

Start with a short sentence or group of words.  Pass it around to about 6 people, with the rule that each person must add (a word or a group of words) or change ONE word ( to another word or a group of words) to make the sentence more specific and more enjoyable.

Students write sentences or longer texts and substitute drawings for nouns.

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Place an object in a bag- ensure the students don’t see it. Students feel the object in the bag and use words to describe how it feels. They take it out and add /alter their adjectives.

An object is passed around a group of students. Each student suggests an adjective to describe it.

Alternative

Students provide an adjectival phrase or clause to describe the object

Students randomly select from a box a picture of an animal, person or object that moves. They brainstorm action verbs for the chosen object.

Alternative

The students can supply verbs and adverbs

They can supply adjectives or adjectival groups

Read a text ( this case narrative), and at a particular point, stop and ask students to select a character and suggest, for example:

• What the character is doing, thinking, and feeling ( focus on processes)

Students locate and change one word that will alter the sentence’s meaning.

They share their alterations and discuss which part of speech was the most important in changing the meaning.

Read a text and ask students to write nouns on cards ( red), adjectives (blue), and articles in orange. Rearrange words to create different noun groups. Students can also locate verbs ( green card) and adverbs (yellow). Rearrange all the words to create new sentences.

Alternative

Students can locate adjectival phrases, clauses, or adverbial phrases and write these on other coloured cards.

Players must throw a 1 before they can begin. The winner is the first person to make a sentence that includes all of the following:

1. A group of words that tell what or who ( singular)
2. A group of words that tell when
3. A verb in the past tense
4. An adverb telling how
5. A group of words telling where

They can then rearrange the sentence parts to see how many ways they can make another meaningful sentence.  

Alternative

Other parts of speech can be used for each number thrown.

Before the activity, a cube is prepared. Upon each face of the cube, a task is written that requires specific grammar knowledge. For example:

Make a sentence

Make a question

Provide two adjectives

Provide two verbs

Create a noun group (e.g. article, adjective/s noun)

Provide a noun and an adverb

Students select a subject ( noun) from a tin. They throw the cube, and whichever side of the cube faces up is the task they must attempt.

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Games and exercises to develop and correct reading and writing skills.

Games and exercises to develop and correct reading and writing skills.

Game Find letter."

Purpose: fixing the visual image of letters font. Invite the child, carefully looking through the text, to find and underline the correct letter. Don't forget to ask what letter he is looking for? letter can be circled or crossed out, etc. Upon successful completion of such tasks, you can offer to simultaneously search for two letters and highlight them with any way.

Divide the letters game.

Purpose: differentiation of letters A-U.

Contents: The slide contains words that contain letters A and U. It is necessary to divide them into two groups.

Find the correct letter game.

Purpose: fixing the visual image of letters.

Content: on the slide the letters are correctly written, mirrored, and crossed out. The child only needs to choose correctly spelled letters.

Match the letter.

Purpose: fixing the visual image of beech, A, U.

Contents: The elements of the letters are shown on the slide. Gotta collect Y then A.

Game "Fold a figure of seven sticks."

Purpose: fixing the visual image of letters.

Content: Verbal instructions:

• remove one stick so that got the letters B, O;
• remove two sticks so that letters E, P, R H are obtained; b, y;
• remove three sticks so that the letters S.Ch are obtained;
• remove four sticks so that you get the letter G;
• move two sticks so that you get the letter Y.

Find the hidden letter game.

Purpose: fixing the visual image of letters.

Content: Find and color only the letters.

Air letter game.

Purpose: develop a visual and spatial understanding of the letter, imagination, attention, memory.

Content: invite the children to close their eyes and imagine that the letters have turned into air pencils. Ask to draw letters with the nose, forefinger, foot, elbow, ear

Builders game

Goal: develop visual and spatial representation of the letter, attention.

Material : Construction cubes.

Content: I offer the children the task of constructing letters-words from building material.

Game "Find the place of the sound in the word."

Purpose: Exercise children in finding the place of sound in a word (at the beginning, in the middle or in end).

Contents of : pictures with the image of a bus, a dress and a book are hung on the board. teacher asks the children to name the objects. Asks which one is the same sound is heard in the names of all objects. "That's right - the sound" A ". This sound is in the names of all objects, but it is heard in different places of the word - explains teacher. - One begins with the sound "A", in the other the sound "A" is in middle, and the third word ends with this sound.

A now look at the card (one card is given for two children).

Under each picture is a strip of three cells. If the sound I call is you hear at the beginning of the word, put the chip in the first cell. If sound is heard in in the middle of the word, the chip must be placed in the second cell. If the sound at the end words, the chip is placed in the third cell.

The game "Who lives in the house."

Purpose: Exercise children in the selection of words with a certain sound.

Content: 3-4 children play. Each player receives a house with a letter. The teacher takes from stacks of a picture with an image of an animal, names it, and the children determine in what kind of house it should live. If an animal can live in different houses (giraffe - in the house w and in the house r , then the picture gets the child who first said that this animal should live in his house. If it turns out that some animal has nowhere to live, because the house is already occupied (for example, a cat can only live in house to ), the teacher invites the children to think about where other animals can be moved so that make room for him.

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Purpose: exercise children in the formation of new words from given letters; develop mental operations; prepare for reading.

Material: picture with a plate attached at the bottom, which illustrates the number of letters in a given word; cards with scattered letters or magnetic letters.

Contents: the teacher says that there are pictures of words, but the letters have crumbled. We will make words from letters that have crumbled.

WRITING GAMES