These are some criteria that should be looked on when choosing materials for your students' writing tasks.

1. Prepared by:
Iqbal Syahmi bin Sabin

2. • Materials are used to assist students
in their writing process, as well as to
assist the teacher to teach the
targeted skills or format in writing.

3. There are a few criteria that should be taken
account in when choosing materials for
writing tasks, some of the are;
• The correlation of it with the objective
of the lesson
• Quality of the material
• Relevant to students needs
• Able to pique students' interest

4. • The selected material should be able to
assist the teacher and student in achieving
the objective of the teaching and learning
process
• No correlation means that the
material is not effective

5. • Quality is important for the material to be
fully viable for the student to follow and
refer to
• Material with grammar mistakes or
other errors that comes with it might
get students into imitating it, and
question the teacher's capability.

6. • Relevance concerns the information that is
provided by the material for the students'
learning
• The level of the material should
suit the students in terms of their
proficiency and age-
appropriateness of the content

7. • This concerns the attractiveness of the
material for the student to get pulled in to
the learning process
• A creative, colourful, and easily
understandable material may
increase students' interest in
referring to the material

8. Material chosen for writing tasks
should be;
• Correlated with the objective of the
lesson
• Have good quality
• Relevant to students needs
• Able to pique students' interest