On Saturday, April 27, 2019 TESL Durham welcomed professional speaker Tim Westhead with the presentation: "Picture that! Great writing prompts for students". Later on, Nancy Van Dorp introduced the LearnIT2teach project.
If you are interested to know more about Tim Westhead and his work, you can visit his website:
http://www.timwesthead.com/Home.html
To learn more about the LearnIT2teach project, courseware and training opportunities, visit:
http://learnit2teach.ca/wpnew/
Thank you all for answering Tim Westhead's call and sharing additional writing suggestions. Here's the list;
If you are interested to know more about Tim Westhead and his work, you can visit his website:
http://www.timwesthead.com/Home.html
To learn more about the LearnIT2teach project, courseware and training opportunities, visit:
http://learnit2teach.ca/wpnew/
Thank you all for answering Tim Westhead's call and sharing additional writing suggestions. Here's the list;
- Use ideas from storytelling web forums: www.reddit.com/r/writingprompts
- Ask students to write prompts to randomly spread around the class
- Ask students to write a prompt for their neighbor
- Pick a theme and send students to the library to pick a book and do a book study (in pairs or individually). Depending on level, they can highlight nouns, adjectives, verbs. They can also look at sentence structure.
- Use postcards or photos as starters for writing.
- Use a video / movie clip / sport or any recorded event to: 1. create a dialogue & voice-over & 2. do a sports or event commentary (writing + speaking)
- Get students to write a comic strip dialogue using target grammar or vocabulary
- How to survive a zombie apocalypse: give some prompts like "Travel alone or in a group?" (use clips or photos from Walking Dead)
- Write a paragraph using at least 10 compound nouns
- Imagine you are an inanimate object (for example, a sandwich or a pillow)