Strategies to Improve Writing Skills

Writing is a fundamental part of engaging in professional, social, community, and civic activities. It helps students to communicate thoughts and ideas to others, encourage them to engage with the text to deepen their understanding of the content and draw connections to prior learning experiences.

Students learn to write by writing. This techniques help students to improve writing skill:

1. Students read book of their preferences; reading enhances vocabulary, it gives insight to other writing styles and techniques and keeps creativity flowing.

2. Improve your vocabulary and learn unfamiliar words, say 2 o 3 words per day, and try to use the word in sentences, including them in dialogues and writings. 

3. Think about the themes you would like to write, it helps students to be creative.

4. Start writing sentences in order to make corrections if there are some mistakes and share them with another classmate.

5. Then, write 1 paragraph joining all the sentences and using some connectors to make this more coherence and significant.

6. Write more than 2 paragraphs and ask for help. Teacher can guide and support students ideas if they need.

7. In all the drafts, it is necessary to make feedback.

8. For the final draft, students think in a possible tittle, it has to be interesting for the reader.

Aspects to take into account: 

For improving writing skills is necessary to write pieces of new,  daily routines, dialogues, tales, magazines and other exercises that help students to be better writers. 

Taken from: WaysandHow, 05th June 2013. "How to improve your English Writing Skills-English Lesson Tips". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0djjrCxuJk