Embedded Post – Independent Writing Activities

Voice to Text This post is going to make you think about writing in a different way. In today’s technological world, writing doesn’t have to mean writing by hand. We can text. And if we can text, we can also use our devices to turn voice to text. Voice to text might offer an adult learner, who lacks writing skills, a tool to get started. Vocabulary Building Use an App on your device to turn voice to text. You could use it to start a list – shopping items, to-do list, guests to a party, favourite foods, words beginning with […]

Practical Writing Activities This post is full of some practical ideas for you. Doing these writing activities will help you manage things in your daily life. Here are some ideas you could give to a learner to get them started as they manage everyday life. They might think of other lists and checklists they could create: To Do Lists A weekly to-do list can help your learner be productive and track what they have done and what they still need to do. Check boxes can be added to increase motivation. Checking back to the previous week’s tasks to see what

Using Magazines to Inspire This post is going to spark your creativity! We are going to use magazine pages to inspire some creative writing. You’ll need scissors and a glue stick. It really is a lot of fun! Here are some ideas you could give to a learner to get them started cutting and sticking to express their thoughts and ideas: Title a Picture Magazine pictures are a great way to spark some creative writing. If your learner doesn’t have magazines, there are sometimes free magazines in food stores or out in the community or they may already have some,

Writing Prompts For many people, thinking of something to write about is the biggest hurdle to getting started. It can be a game changer when you are given a topic, theme, or set of questions to focus on. A prompt is a question or a fill-in-the-blank. Your answer could be just one word, or more, depending on your comfort as a writer. Here are some ideas of prompts you could give to a learner to get them started: Repeating prompt Your learner chooses one prompt that they can use daily (or weekly, or on occasion) where they might have a

Focus on Letters For beginning writers, practising letter writing skills is an writing activity that can be done independently. An adult will enjoy tracing letters, finding and copying letters, finding and matching letters, and writing words that match the sounds they hear. Tracing letters If your learner is at the stage of learning how to form letters, you could get them started by providing a template for tracing. They could have several lines of one letter on the top half of the page, leaving the bottom half for magazine pictures or drawings of things which start with that letter. Another