Creative Writing Activities
To support the learning outcomes in the WLAA program, we use a wide variety of educational activities, such as interactive worksheets, role plays, games and more.
They keep lessons fun, active, and social, while complementing the course information.
If you want better writing, students need more than explanations. They need repeated, guided experiences that make good choices feel natural.
How these activities work
- These are just some of the many interactive activities included with the WLAA program.
- Each activity is designed to create a small, clear writing win that brings part of the course to life.
Fast, friendly competition that turns craft skills into repeatable habits, without the feel of a worksheet.
- Fluency
- Craft choices
- Motivation
- Confidence
A role play where a panel of students interview a character to uncover goals, contradictions, and emotional logic.
- Characters
- Motivation
- Contradictions
- Emotion
Two students role play an adversarial situation where they must agree with everything the other person says. Then switch!
- Drama
- Conflict
- Dialogue
- Subtext
An interactive worksheet in which students colour code the four building blocks of writing to clearly visualise the ratios between the different aspects.
- Structure
- Balance
- Clarity
- Revision
An interactive worksheet where students try to locate as many different suspense techniques as possible.
- Suspense
- Tension
- Foreshadowing
- Reader impact
A classroom storytelling companion for junior grades – a fun way to guide your students through creating a complete story together.
- Story shape
- Characters
- Sequencing
- Confidence