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.
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.
Writing How-to's 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.
Put students in charge of teaching
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.
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!
Build Social Skills
Write social stories that describe how to behave in different situations.
Promote Safety
These emerging writers created public service announcements with steps students could take to be safe during Halloween.
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
