This document provides 20 strategies for teachers to get students writing, including writing games, creative writing exercises, and persuasive writing prompts. Some suggested activities are folding story narratives, writing from pictures or personal experiences, developing characters and stories, and responding to text. The strategies aim to engage students through different genres and tasks to improve their writing skills.

1. 20 Great Strategies To
Get Students Writing
2011
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2. In this pd...
Writing games
Creative writing
Writing poetry
Persuasive writing
Text response writing
Authentic writing tasks

3. Writing games
Folding story
Folding story narrative parts
Taboo

4. Writing games
Ten things in a fridge
Ten things smaller than a hand
Ten expensive things

5. Writing games
Creating words

6. Creative writing
Retelling stories
Writing from experience
Finding inspiration
Developing ideas
Quality Writing Tasks

7. Creative writing
Retelling stories
The worse film I’ve seen...
BAR

8. Creative writing
BAR
B = Bigger
A = Add
R = Remove

9. Creative writing
Writing from experience:
My most frightening moment...
My most embarrassing moment...
A near death experience...
The worst holiday of my life...
A natural disaster that affected me...
The strangest thing I ever saw...

10. Creative writing
Picture story boards

11. Creative writing
Finding inspiration:
Picture challenge
Newspaper scrapbook

12. Creative writing
Developing ideas:
Quick character profile
Goal / Motivation / Conflict
Quality writing tasks