Collaborative writing activities

Bring collaborative writing into your classroom with these 5 engaging, low-prep collaborative activities that you can use in your class tomorrow.

Engage students with this fun snowball collaborative writing activity that will get even reluctant writers putting pencil to paper!

A Collaborative Writing Project for the Secondary ELA Classroom | The Daring English Teacher

Do you have struggling writers who just don't seem to be growing? Do you have reluctant writers who don't seem to get much writing completed? In every class that I have ever taught, there has always been a handful of kiddos that just don't like writing. These students can be toughest to reach. You have

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I love working on collaborative writing projects with my primary learners! 🙂 It gives them a chance to learn to work with others and to give one another meaningful feedback on group project. I have a six step writing process in my classroom. Once the students have individually drafted their part of the writing,...Read More »

Google Docs is an easy way for students to write collaborative stories.

I have been working closely with the literacy support teacher at my school recently. She and I have been co-teaching a Grade 8 Social Studies class and today I'd like to share an activity that she introduced me to: Collaborative Place Mats. This technique is especially helpful at the beginning of a project or inquiry to help groups start to brainstorm about their big idea, topic, or question. Before we began the activity, we talked as a class about what behaviours we wanted to follow as we…

What writing unit for high school will you create? Teaching writing in high school requires meeting narrative, expository, and argumentative standards. Build writing activities and writing lessons to engage secondary writers. Add writing graphic organizers, writing presentations, and targeted grammar practice. Work on subject verb agreement, pronoun antecedent agreement, and complete sentences in student writing.

Use these four activities to get your upper elementary students listening and speaking to each other! Games, making words, qr code activities, and task cards will help your students learn the content while honing their ELA skills, team-building, and fostering a classroom community! Perfect for paired students or at a center, these collaborative activities will get your third, fourth, and fifth grade students collaborating and getting to know each other and the content at the same time!