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Welcome to our Writing Worksheets category, where you can find a variety of free ready-to-print lesson materials for teaching writing that you can use with your class. Very often textbooks do not provide enough writing practice activities leaving it up to the teacher to decide on this. At the same time, writing skills are one of the most underdeveloped skills in a lot of language school graduates. With our free lesson materials, your students can learn to write about virtually everything: we provide free creative writing prompts, handwriting practice worksheets with traceable letters, story pictures that would motivate students of any age, teacher worksheets with detailed instructions on teaching writing. Ask your learners to write a creative story as a homework assignment, or use any of our writing practice worksheets where students can write about anything - with the proper motivation!

At the moment we have the total of 318 writing worksheets as well as a number of other useful resources for teaching the skill of writing, such as printable handouts for all levels, letter tracing pages for evolving English writers, teaching tips about best ways to teach writing, etc.
View the recently added Writing lesson ideas and worksheets below or search through the menu at the top of each page to locate the worksheet you are looking for for your particular topic.
If you're new to teaching writing, we suggest you start from the following two articles that will explain the essentials of teaching this skill: 'How To Teach a Perfect Writing Lesson' and 'How To Effectively Teach English Writing Skills'. We believe these two resources should give you a good idea of what teaching this skill is all about, so that you could use our worksheets most effectively! 

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At BusyTeacher, our primary aim is making your lesson preparation as easy as possible - this is why we provide free access to our growing collection of 318 printable writing worksheets. These teacher-tested materials will help you prepare an amazing lesson - just chose your subtopic, print them out and you're ready to go! No matter whether you're teaching a letter writing lesson to Elementary students, or an Email lesson to a group of business executives - we're here to help!
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Space Exploration: Creative Writing Space Exploration: Creative WritingThis is a guided task for intermediate students attending level 6 - it may be done through pairwork.It allows students to make a gist about the possibilities and the odds involving space explorati ...
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rated by 1 teachers

Intermediate
 
Business E-mails Business E-mailsA very thorough worksheet dealing with business e-mails: how to address different people depending on your relationship, giving reasons for writing, reminding the reader of any previous meetings, ...
  • 108
rated by 4 teachers

Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Writing A Description Of A Place Writing A Description Of A PlaceWriting a description may be difficult for some students, what I've seen in my experience is that they get lost. So I've found useful to give them the steps they have to follow aswell as the order ...
  • 135
rated by 9 teachers

Intermediate
 
Belongings BelongingsThis worksheet is based on a photo article on http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/nyregion/27belongings.html. Students look at the pictures some immigrants have taken with them to NYC and try to gu ...
  • 135
rated by 3 teachers

Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Where the Wild Things Are: Guided Writing Worksheet Where the Wild Things Are: Guided Writing WorksheetThe activity combines different activities. I start with having the students watch a part of the film (00.20-00.45) and ask them to tell me what they have learnt about Max. Then I distribute the w ...
  • 108
rated by 3 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Diary of Justin Bieber Diary of Justin BieberIn the lesson, students watch a video of Justin Bieber and write a diary about his day.The students first read a profile of Justin Bieber and gain some background information about him.Then, they ...
  • 135
rated by 4 teachers

Intermediate
 
Newspaper Headlines Worksheet Newspaper Headlines WorksheetNewspaper headlines, in authentic newspapers especially, have their own language. Journalists use a variety of techniques in order to attract and keep the reader’s attention. Some of them ar ...
  • 135
rated by 12 teachers

Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
IELTS/TOEFL Speaking - Family IELTS/TOEFL Speaking - FamilySingle page giving subject formulaic language learners could use in speaking exams/everyday English (a bit formal tho) as well as a word cloud highlighting some key topic vocab with synonyms.IELTS ...
  • 135
rated by 7 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Relative Clauses and Pronouns Cheat Sheet Relative Clauses and Pronouns Cheat SheetA student started this as a summary of relative clauses. I corrected her few mistakes and spruced it up a bit, but I find it to be a pretty good cheat sheet of relative clauses. Please note this i ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
New Year Resolutions Worksheet New Year Resolutions WorksheetA short reading and writing activity where the kids will first read some clues and then use their own imagination to write about their own New Year resolutions. It can be then followed by a speaki ...
  • 108
rated by 11 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
How To Write a Postcard How To Write a PostcardThere you can find some examples of the postcards on different topics. The students have to fill in the postcards and write their own ones. There is also a useful link where you can try to write a ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate
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