Writing Warm Ups: 70 Activities for Prewriting

Warm-up students' writing muscles (and skills) with this creative teacher resource of activities and reproducible exercise sheets! Designed to sensitize English learners to the process of writing before their first compositions go down on paper, these 70 activities introduce such writing concepts as audience, purpose, point of view, focus, classification, sequence, cause and effect, and comparison and contrast. Every activity has easy-to-follow teacher notes and minimal preparation for the teacher. An answer key is included. This is truly a fun "workout room" for getting the writing skills of English learners "in shape!"