Write & Improve
Area
Second language learning
Duration
20min
Dimension of the advised group of students
10-25
Specific objectives
Practise writing English
Needed Materials
Computer &internet connection
Software
To interact online with students use:
-online communication platform, such us: zoom, google meets, etc
-tools to deliver the training and working in groups: mentimenter, jamboard, slido, kahoot, etc.
Description
Write & Improve is a free tool that helps students to improve their English writing online. The Write & Improve workbooks contain hundreds of writing tasks at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels. Students can use the tool by writing independently. Write & Improve helps them practise different types of writing and encourages them to think about how they can improve their writing. The tool gives automatic feedback and hints to show students where they need to make changes. The tool provides word, sentence-level and motivational feedback and a progress graph, so students can compare your latest piece of writing with their previous work.
The tool has also a teachers’section. Teachers can choose tasks from the Write & Improve workbooks or create their own tasks based on their interests or homework. Write & Improve helps teachers get better insights into the needs of their students, see all their students’ writing and feedback, see progress reports against the international standard, the CEFR.
The site could be used with students at risk of demotivation because the online interactive activities can be chosen according to students’ language level and their topics are interesting to students. The materials on the site can be used and applied in a fully virtual/at distance teaching context and in a blended learning environment.
Procedure on how to put in practice
Duration: 20 min
No of Participants: 10-50
Methods used: discussion
Step-by-step description:
1. The students access the site and create a profile to save all their work in time.
2. The students choose their level for the writing task (beginner, intermediate, advanced).
3. The students choose a writing task and starts writing it.
4. The students submit the task and get feedback and hints to make changes.
5. The students improve their writing according to the feedback they received.
6. Class discussion on the way they did they task with a focus on distractors.
Debriefing question: What are the tips you would give teens to improve their writing skills?
