Grupo de trabajo del CEP Virgen de la Villa (Martos, Jaén)

1. Grupo de Trabajo CEP Virgen de la
Villa

2. -It should be taught at the
same time the pupils learn to
read.
-Writing does not start with
letters. It should start with
basic pre-orthographic
techniques, like drawing.
-Writing must not be started
too early.
-It must be understood as a
fundamental part of
education.

3. -How the pencil is taken.
-Right body position and paper
holding.
-Shape and size of the letters.
-Orthography.
-Separation between words and
letters.

4. - Controlled writing: The teacher tightly
controls everything the pupil writes.
-Guided writing: The teacher provides
prompts or clues as a framework for ideas
and organization.
- Free production: Pupils have more
freedom to write. They refer to charts,
pictures or other reference materials to
revise and edit their own compositions.

6. 1.- Make words game
The teacher hides a few random letters around the
class. In groups, students have to find them and
form the correct word on the blackboard. The first
group to form the word wins.

7. 2.- Jumbled sentences
In pairs, students have to put some jumbled sentences in
the correct order on the floor and rewrite them on the
blackboard. The first pair to write the sentence is the
winner!

8. 3.- Gap filling activity
Individually, students are given a card like the following
ones. What they have to do is to fill in the gaps with the
information provided by the teacher.

9. A) Practising colours and numbers

10. B) The seasons of the year

11. 4.- Word search puzzle
In pairs, students have to relate as quick as possible the pictures
on both sides of the square with the letters inside of it. After
that, they have to write the names under each photograph. The
team that finishes the first wins.
A G A N R I O E T S W P
P I X E L T B L E U I L
C R E C O W A E T M A B
G A U D I A N P H A L C
H F V E A U P H U T A V
R F U K A N G A R O O W
K E P B A P U N O P U R
E A E L T R U T D O G T
S E A O D Y T R A P I G
A U P A B A R C A P K I
C R O C O D I L E I Y P
E O R O P E I N D H O O

13. 1.- Category writing game
The classroom is divided into
two or three groups. Each
group chooses their “captain”.
The teacher writes on the
board a word like “FRUIT”,
“COLOURS” OR “ANIMALS”,
etc. Each group has to tell
their captain to write down as
many words as they can. They
have one or two minutes. Each
group takes one point for
each word and correct spelling
will be taken into account.

14. 2.-Write a question for each answer.
Question 1: ____________________________________
Answer 1: My name is “Simba.”
Question 2: ___________________________________
Answer 2: Today is Sunday.
Question 3: ____________________________________
Answer 3: I’m fine, thank you.
Question 4: ___________________________________
Answer 4: I need a new pair of shoes.
Question 5: ___________________________________
Answer 5: My favorite car is made in Germany.
Question 6: ___________________________________
Answer 6: There are six potatoes.
Question 7: ___________________________________
Answer 7: Yes, of course.
Question 8: ___________________________________
Answer 8: Don´t worry, you will pass it in September.
Question 9: ___________________________________
Answer 9: I think she is a beautiful girl.

15. 2.-Word creation
A long word is written on the board. Pupils will add
(vertically) words that have been rooted from the base
word. Example
D N T R
N Y I A U N
I O A O O O
F A T H E R C H R I S T M A S
A O O
I S T
R E H
E
R

16. 4. Let's Have a Fantasy Birthday Party!
Imagine that you are a very important and rich person and you
are going to celebrate a big birthday party. You live in a
fantastic house. All we have to do is:
•-First: In pairs, write down how this fantastic
house is. For that, make a list trying to imagine
how this house could be (Example: enormous,
beautiful, with a big garden, etc.)
•- Second: Write a list of famous people that you
could invite to this party (Example: Johnny Deep,
Antonio Banderas, etc.) They may be Spanish or
not.
•- Third: Next to the names of the guests, write
at least two adjectives that describe each of
them, but write a longer description of your
favourite guest.
•- Fourth: Make a list of questions that you would
like to ask to these people when they come to
your party.

18. 1.- Write the parts of his body.
- Hello children, my
name’s Aladino and I have
a question for you: What
is your favorite wish?
(Write here please:)
___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________

19. 2.- The secret code book
In pairs or in groups, pupils are given a cardboard with a secret
code, where numbers correspond to letters. What they have to
do is to create their own messages, which will consist of a
command that the other groups have to decode and interpret.
The first group to do the action will have to create the next
message.
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26

20. 3.- Wild sentences
• Play this as a team game, with
three or four teams.
• Show the first card to the teams.
They go to different corners of
the room and try to think of a
crazy sentence, using the word on
the card. (Ex: if it´s a card with
the picture of an elephant: “The
elephant rides a bicycle”, or if it´s
a pizza, “I like pizza with
chocolate sauce”. Each team
writes their sentence on a piece
of paper.
• The teams now compare
sentences. An ungrammatical
sentence gets no points. For
grammatically correct sentences
award one point per word and a
“bonus” of three points for the
craziest sentence. The team with
the most points at the end wins.

21. 4.- Look at the following picture and write all the
words that come to your mind.

22. 5.- Write an acrostic poem about your teacher.
Begin each line with a word or phrase that starts
with the letter on that line.
M________________________________
Y________________________________
T________________________________
E________________________________
A________________________________
C________________________________
H________________________________
E________________________________
R_________________________________

23. 6.- Silly stories.
The teacher writes
on the blackboard
the beginning of a
small story. Each
student will add a
sentence very
quickly. At the end,
we will have an
original story
created by the
whole class.

25. In order that writing tasks have a positive effect
on our students over the years, they should have a
communicative purpose and meet the following
requisites:
-It makes the pupil think.
-It solves a problem.
-It’s playful in nature.
-It’s enjoyable.
-It serves to communicate something.
-It’s useful at first sight.