Encourage the child to keep a journal. This gives the child the initiative to improve her own writing skills. She may want to keep the journal private or share some of what she has written with the group. Give the children, in turn, a class mascot, or toy, to take home for the weekend. Ask each child to write the toy's account of the weekend, from the moment it left the school to its return. The child can read this out loud to the class.
Ask the children to write to a pen pal from a foreign country after first enlisting the parents' and principal's support. Invite them to share this adventure with the class for instance, giving a presentation on the pen pal's country. Help each child to include maps and information about the geography and produce of the other country. Teach the children the correct way to write a letter as part of this project.
Engage the children in some fun writing exercises. The British Council BBC recommends an exercise where the teacher asks the children to write down nine things parents never say; for example, parents never say, "do not go to bed early tonight." Ask the children to write a sentence in no more than eight words on a specified topic. Ask them to think of and write tongue twisters for the entertainment of the other children.
Help the children to correct and improve their own writing. Ask them to write a short essay. Tell them to write a rough draft. Then help them to edit the essay, correcting any spelling grammatical or punctuation mistakes. Tell them to write a final draft. This helps to establish good writing practice for later life.