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English Writing Skills for ESL Learners

This is the English Club English writing site for ESL students. It looks at the letters of the alphabet, when to use capital letters and some spelling rules.

11-14 year olds
Pupils

Images to Inspire

Looking for inspiration for creative writing? Look no further. This great site from Teaching Packs has evocative photographs with lots of ideas for the classroom.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Writing Tips: Essay Builder

Good advice here for improving your essay writing techniques.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

Creative Writing Tasks

Spin the wheel to generate an interesting creative writing task.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Creative Writing Ideas

Some excellent ideas to use as a stimulus for creative writing.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Look, Cover, Write, Check

A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words to test your knowledge.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Dropping In

A great sentence exercise which can help you to write interesting sentences.

6-8 year olds
Pupils

Sentence Magic

This site highlights some important ways of improving sentences to make your writing more interesting.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Poetry4Kids

Lots of poetry for children and good tips for writing poetry. Great for teaching ideas and Kenn Nesbitt is also available for school visits.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide. It has useful advice to help you improve your writing techniques, but it is quite heavy going.

16-18 year olds
Pupils
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