Engage learners with how-to writing projects

Use these examples of how-to writing projects created by students to inspire your own writing, SEL, and student-centered work.

Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.

These how-to projects were created by students using Wixie.

Learning to write and sequence direction

Have students write how-to books for favorite activities or tasks they can do independently.

Lesson Plan

Create how-to’s for skill remediation

When we have to teach others, we really learn the process or rule. Elementary educator Katy Hammack had her students create tutorials to better under the grammar rules they were personally struggling with.

Article - Student-created Grammar Tutorials

Put students in charge of teaching

Article - A Student's Turn to Flip

Find inspiration in a story

Read a book like Edith Baer's This is the Way We Go to School or Kate Messner's How to Read a Story and create a class version with each student contributing a page!

More ideas for adapting literature

Build Social Skills

Write social stories that describe how to behave in different situations.

More ideas for purposeful writing projects

Promote Safety

These emerging writers created public service announcements with steps students could take to be safe during Halloween.

Lesson Plan

How to stay safe in severe weather

Using Wixie to teach others how to stay safe during dangerous storms. ????????? pic.twitter.com/zOTezv5SrI
— Mrs. Crump (@MrsCrumpCWES) January 23, 2020

How to make the world a better place

Mrs. Katz's kindergartners writing about MLK on #wixie and how they can make the world better #parkavepride pic.twitter.com/6fdqxZSsfb
— Amanda Melican (@park_ave_stem) January 21, 2016

How to spend a snow day

Working on WIXIE to create our �How to Build a Snowman� writing #Parkavepride pic.twitter.com/zWZmI0bpxx
— Lisa Ramus (@mrsramus) December 6, 2018

Incredible! @CopperHillES 1st-graders using voice typing to publish their "How To" and creating their OWN #Wixie images to enhance their piece. So this is how tech can help us with our writing! @MKleinwaksFRSD @FlemRarSchools pic.twitter.com/8QHSoCuHdG
— Patricia Flavin (@patflavin1007) February 4, 2020

Students in Ms. Taylor's second grade classroom made books about animals in Wixie Other students made "how-to" books in Wixie. They explained the steps to perform a task.� #wixie @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/2FU9B7nP1j
— mrscushman (@mrscushman) December 5, 2019

Ss working had on their "how to" writing on Wixie! pic.twitter.com/NbaNZvSq9f
— Mrs.EmilyOren2012 (@mrseoren2012) February 27, 2017