ICT 4 ELT Portals

Writing for teachers of elementary students

Compiled and annotated by
Gabriela Tramplerová

This webpage contains links to websites about writing for teachers of elementary students

• Teaching writing at Elementary & Lower Intermediate levels

  http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/esl1212.html

  This webpage provides various advices how to plan the writing lessons and gives the topic examples.

• Writing for Elementary learners

  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/write/elem_write.shtml

  How to create writing "authentic" and purposeful? It gives teachers advices how to motivate our students for writing which is not easy.

• Various English Language Learning Materials

  http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/

  Something for everybody and being an English teacher you can find many useful teaching materials there not only for writing.

• Writing

  http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/ela/writing01.html

  This website teaches the way to explain the general idea of writing to the students. It is not only for elementary students, it is for all levels of English writing. It helps to write essays etc.

• Reading Rockets: Writing

  http://www.readingrockets.org/articles/c37/

  There is a lot of useful information for teachers about writing, especially what to focus on while teaching writing.

• Friendly letter writing

  http://www.esd.iu5.org/LessonPlans/LetterWriting/lettermain.htm

  It is a great website for learning letter writing. It looks nice and it is easy to understand even for the beginners.

• Letter writing

  http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/letterwriting/

  It gives instructions how to write a letter and what information should be stated in it.

• Letter writing

  http://www.libraryonline.com/default.asp?pID=2

  This website is the best of all BUT… to have an access to all information you have to pay. There are all kinds of letter templates; you can also check the grammar while writing a letter. You will find many writing tips there, too.

• Grammar & Web English Teacher

  http://www.webenglishteacher.com/grammar.html

  There is a lot of useful information for writing, e.g. usage of conjunctions, differences between adjectives and adverbs…

• The Writing Process

  http://www.proteacher.com/070038.shtml

  There are many ideas for teaching writing. This webpage provides us with various topics for writing not only for elementary students.