Grupo de Trabajo CEP Virgen de la Villa

-It should be taught at the same time the pupils learn to read.

-Writing does not start with letters. It should start with -Writing does not start with letters. It should start with basic pre-orthographic techniques, like drawing.

-Writing must not be started too early.

-It must be understood as a fundamental part of education.

-How the pencil is taken.

-Right body position and paper -Right body position and paper holding.

-Shape and size of the letters.

-Orthography.

-Separation between words and letters.

- Controlled writing: The teacher tightly controls everything the pupil writes.

-Guided writing: The teacher provides prompts or clues as a framework for ideas and organization. and organization.

- Free production: Pupils have more freedom to write. They refer to charts, pictures or other reference materials to revise and edit their own compositions.

1.- Make words game

The teacher hides a few random letters around the class. In groups, students have to find them and form the correct word on the blackboard. The first group to form the word wins.

2.- Jumbled sentences

In pairs, students have to put some jumbled sentences in the correct order on the floor and rewrite them on the blackboard. The first pair to write the sentence is the winner!

3.- Gap filling activity

Individually, students are given a card like the following ones. What they have to do is to fill in the gaps with the information provided by the teacher.

A) Practising colours and numbers

B) The seasons of the year

4.- Word search puzzle

In pairs, students have to relate as quick as possible the pictures on both sides of the square with the letters inside of it. After that, they have to write the names under each photograph. The team that finishes the first wins.

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G A U D I A N P H A L CG A U D I A N P H A L C

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E O R O P E I N D H O O

1.- Category writing game

The classroom is divided into two or three groups. Each group chooses their “captain”. The teacher writes on the board a word like “FRUIT”, “COLOURS” OR “ANIMALS”, etc. Each group has to tell their captain to write down as etc. Each group has to tell their captain to write down as many words as they can. They have one or two minutes. Each group takes one point for each word and correct spelling will be taken into account.

2.-Write a question for each answer.

Question 1: ____________________________________ Answer 1: My name is “Simba.”

Question 2: ___________________________________ Answer 2: Today is Sunday.

Question 3: ____________________________________ Answer 3: I’m fine, thank you.

Question 4: ___________________________________Answer 4: I need a new pair of shoes.

Question 5: ___________________________________Question 5: ___________________________________Answer 5: My favorite car is made in Germany.

Question 6: ___________________________________Answer 6: There are six potatoes.

Question 7: ___________________________________ Answer 7: Yes, of course.

Question 8: ___________________________________Answer 8: Don´t worry, you will pass it in September.

Question 9: ___________________________________ Answer 9: I think she is a beautiful girl.

2.-Word creation

A long word is written on the board. Pupils will add (vertically) words that have been rooted from the base word. Example

D N T R

N Y I A U N

I O A O O O I O A O O O

F A T H E R C H R I S T M A S

A O O

I S T

R E H

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Imagine that you are a very important and rich person and you are going to celebrate a big birthday party. You live in a fantastic house. All we have to do is:

4. Let's Have a Fantasy Birthday Party!

•-First: In pairs, write down how this fantastic house is. For that, make a list trying to imagine how this house could be (Example: enormous, beautiful, with a big garden, etc.)

•- Second: Write a list of famous people that you •- Second: Write a list of famous people that you could invite to this party (Example: Johnny Deep, Antonio Banderas, etc.) They may be Spanish or not.

•- Third: Next to the names of the guests, write at least two adjectives that describe each of them, but write a longer description of your favourite guest.

•- Fourth: Make a list of questions that you would like to ask to these people when they come to your party.

1.- Write the parts of his body.

- Hello children, my name’s Aladino and I have a question for you: What is your favorite wish?

(Write here please:) (Write here please:) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2.- The secret code book

In pairs or in groups, pupils are given a cardboard with a secret code, where numbers correspond to letters. What they have to do is to create their own messages, which will consist of a command that the other groups have to decode and interpret. The first group to do the action will have to create the next message.

321

96 7 854

10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26

• Play this as a team game, with three or four teams.

• Show the first card to the teams. They go to different corners of the room and try to think of a crazy sentence, using the word on the card. (Ex: if it´s a card with the picture of an elephant: “The elephant rides a bicycle”, or if it´s a pizza, “I like pizza with

3.- Wild sentences

a pizza, “I like pizza with chocolate sauce”. Each team writes their sentence on a piece of paper.

• The teams now compare sentences. An ungrammatical sentence gets no points. For grammatically correct sentences award one point per word and a “bonus” of three points for the craziest sentence. The team with the most points at the end wins.

4.- Look at the following picture and write all the words that come to your mind.

5.- Write an acrostic poem about your teacher. Begin each line with a word or phrase that starts with the letter on that line.

M________________________________

Y________________________________

T________________________________

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A________________________________

C________________________________

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6.- Silly stories.

The teacher writes on the blackboard the beginning of a small story. Each student will add a sentence very sentence very quickly. At the end, we will have an original story created by the whole class.

In order that writing tasks have a positive effect on our students over the years, they should have a communicative purpose and meet the following requisites:

-It makes the pupil think.

-It solves a problem.-It solves a problem.

-It’s playful in nature.

-It’s enjoyable.

-It serves to communicate something.

-It’s useful at first sight.