This document provides guidance on developing writing skills in young learners. It explains that writing can be an engaging activity for children as they are active learners who develop through social interaction and scaffolding. Some tips for encouraging writing include having engaging topics, allowing students to choose their own characters, providing visuals, responding to ideas not just language, marking work positively, and sharing writing as a class. An exercise and references are also included.

1. Writing
A BlOG
1. How to design material for teaching writing
skills in young learners.
By Juan Ramón Méndez Liévano

2. Writing and Young
Learners
Writing can be an engaging, interesting and
inspiring activity for young learners. Children are
active learners and thinkers (Piaget 1965), learn
through social interaction (Vygotsky 1978) and
learn effectively through scaffolding by more able
others (Maybin et al 1992), who can be adults or
peers.

3. Why we need to
develop writing skills
with young learners?

4. ● Encourage collaboration
● Provide visuals, or ask the learners to draw their own
pictures.
● Topics should be engaging
● choose their own characters to write about
● Encourage pride in the presentation of their writing
● Respond to written ideas, not just language
● Mark positively and give feedback
● Give clear and simple criteria and encourage
self/peer correction of written tasks.
● make time to share writing as a class
● Include presentation of learners’ work.
‘Top tips’ for encouraging more
engaging writing tasks

5. Exersice 1
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Exersice
Look at the picture

7. Thank you

8. References
British Counsil. (s.f). Writing and young learners. Consultado el 10
de abril 2022.
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/writing-and-young-
learners