Ideas+for+teaching+writing

Not ELT specific, but some easily adaptable ideas - []

Anna Muhkina's tips for students based on CROAT critera

Paddy Greenleaf suggests " **write words and phrases at the bottom of the text and ask sts to fit them into to an appropriate place in their text - or as an alternative for sth they wrote" as a way of helping to extend student range. ** ** Andrew Cook on the use of mnemonics " ** the first letter mnemonic **PARCSUTE** was useful for students to remember a list of common adverbs (**p**retty, **a**bsolutely, **r**eally, **c**ompletely, **s**imply, **u**tterly, **t**otally, **e**ntirely) which can be used to add detail to strong, ungradable adjectives. Students were able to remember it, and it is the kind of thing that can be written at the top of a page during the planning of a piece of writing to encourage them to both remember and try and use them (within context of course!) Their work was a lot more expressive through using them. There are tonnes online that other people have made up for a whole range of topics, and they can be really easy and fun to make up on your own or in class too."