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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 335 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 335 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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Webquest On Advertising Webquest On AdvertisingThis is a webquest on advertising which will guide your students through the process of designing a webquest. In this worksheet your students will read about propaganda strategies and techniques. ...
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rated by 4 teachers

Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
I Am Writing To Apologize: An Informal Letter of Apology I Am Writing To Apologize: An Informal Letter of ApologyThis is a sample of an informal letter of apology. The worksheet starts with some warm up questions that student's answer. The sample letter is simultaneously a 'fill in the gaps' activity. There ...
  • 108
rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Pre-Entry + Entry1 Phonology (2) Pre-Entry + Entry1 Phonology (2)This handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "ink" / "ame"/ "a ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Elementary
 
Pre Entry + Entry 1 Phonology Pre Entry + Entry 1 PhonologyThis handout can be used after the students have been previously taught about some graphemes and simple words (e.g. "oo" / "ee"/ "th" / "all" / "ow" / "sh" / "ch"/ "ea" / "ing" / "in ...
  • 135
rated by 4 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Punctuation Flashcards Punctuation FlashcardsHere is a set of high quality flashcards for teaching or revising punctuation.There are excellent illustrations and basic rules.The cards are recommended for elementary students and they can also ...
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rated by 4 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Punctuation Picture Dictionary Punctuation Picture DictionaryThis is a picture dictionary which can also be used as a classroom poster for teaching or revising punctuation.The worksheet is available in both colour and black and white version.
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rated by 6 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
ANZAC at WWI: How It All Began ANZAC at WWI: How It All BeganThis worksheet is an introductory task on creative thinking and writing in relation to the initial events that sparked the First World War. Teachers who will use this worksheet will have to be fa ...
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rated by 3 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Reported Questions [Practice] Reported Questions [Practice]This worksheet follows my presentation. The examples have been taken from the book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". There are two pages, each having fifteen sentences for practice. I hope y ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Let's Talk: Writing/Speaking Prompt Let's Talk: Writing/Speaking PromptLet’s Talk 1 Practises verb tenses: Present Continuous, Past Simple, Future SimpleThis worksheet can be used for conversation practise and preparation for oral exams.My adult students find ...
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rated by 16 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
 
Kitchen Verbs Word Search Kitchen Verbs Word SearchEaster is approaching and many of us will present some traditional recipes to our students. But first let's make sure they know necessary vocabulary. This worksheet represents a fun way to revise ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Happiness HappinessThe handout includes several pictures connected with happiness. It can be useful while telling about happy moments in people's lives. Excellent for speaking in classroom as well as during individu ...
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rated by 9 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
 
Mr. Bean Activity Mr. Bean ActivityThis is a worksheet I prepared to my teens students who were studying simple present and daily routines, adverbs of frequency and free time activities. Nice one to practice grammar, they have to w ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Elementary
 
Writing Conclusion Paragraph Writing Conclusion ParagraphStudents are provided with the introduction and body paragraph. First they will read these parts and then complete the remaining part which is conclusion. While writing it is important to use conc ...
  • 108
rated by 6 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
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