Writing strategies

This webpage provides writing strategies in order to write good essays. We learn the parts of an essay, kinds of essays, and the steps to follow when writing an essay. We improve our writing skills.

Descriptive writing

This resource contains writing tips and guidelines that will help us use our observation to write and publish our own descriptive writing.

Writing (PET)

Imagine you are Johnsy. Write a note to Sue inviting her to come to visit you in the Bay of Naples. In your note you should: tell her when you arrived say what you like about Naples suggest when she…

Writing tips

The resource consists of an explanation about how to write an essay. We study the process of writing an essay (planning, mind maps, writing a draft, etc.). The resource provides tips to write a good…

Sky writing

Resource designed to help us improve our handwriting practice. We choose a letter from the alphabet and watch how it is written.

Writing task

This resource is designed to foster writing compositions. We have to fill the gaps with the proper words.

Writing bank

News writing

In the first part of this workshop, we will read a news article and a feature story article. Then you'll get suggestions from our experienced team of writers from Scholastic's Magazine Group on how to…

Writing (PET)

An English friend of yours called Tom likes Shakespeare very much. You want to invite him to a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Write a card or an email to Tom. In the card or email, you should invite…

Essay writing

In this unit we learn how to improve our technique for writing essays in exams. We learn how to read questions carefully, find the key concepts in the questions, and recognise and understand the main…