Looking for writing activities for your students to practice their essay skills? Try this set of 20 practical writing activities that are perfect for practicing different parts of essay writing. Designed on task cards for easy integration into your teaching routine, each card features a different activity to help students practice key essay elements like brainstorming, restating, summarizing, and supporting ideas. Perfectly tailored for Problem Solution Essays, this set is your go-to resource for making writing practice both enjoyable and effective for your students!

These activities are perfect for essay writing practice. All 20 writing activities are presented on task cards, making this resource very versatile. You can use it as group work, exit tickets or time fillers. They work great as enrichment activities and supplemental tasks on writing. Use them instantly for sub plans or put them in writing centers so students can practice their essay skills.

If you are teaching a lesson on essays, or just looking to get your students to write better, than this package is for you. The activities are great for students looking to improve their abilities writing problem solution essays. They also work great for isolated practice of different parts of an essay.

Your students can use these writing activities to practice…

• summarizing
• brainstorming
• restating a writing prompt
• using language for writing about problems and solutions
• writing supporting ideas
• using conditionals
• expressing effect

This package includes 20 tasks cards on 10 PDF pages that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It also comes with resource notes on the most effective ways to use task cards in your classroom. These essay writing task cards are featured in my Problem Solution Graphic Organizers with Activities for Grade 8 resource.

This package includes writing activities that give practice to different parts of essay writing. It does not include writing topics or prompts. For those, please see my Essay Writing Prompts Resource.

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