Writing Practice for Kids: Kindergarten to First Stories

About these lessons

These lessons are made for children of about 4 to 10 who are just beginning to write in English. They start with kindergarten lessons — one bright picture, one word, one tiny sentence, with every word on the screen to copy — and go up to short picture stories at roughly the stage of the Cambridge Starters and Movers exams.

Feedback is gentle and specific, such as “Start with a capital letter” or “Put a full stop at the end”. Children can try again as often as they like and there is no timer. For the first few lessons, sit nearby: read the picture together, then let your child tap or type. Ten minutes a day is plenty.

Each level adds one small skill. The kindergarten lessons are about choosing the right word and copying a short sentence; the next ones are about capital letters, full stops and putting words in the right order; later ones add plural words, and and but, describing words and simple questions. Every finished story ends with a cheerful review, so children can see what they have learnt and feel ready for the next picture.

What you practise

• W1 · pre-A1Capital letters · full stops · S-V-O word order
• W2 · pre-A13–5 word sentences · plural -s · a/an
• W3 · A1and / but · describing adjectives
• W4 · A1Questions and “?” · pronouns · the

Lessons include “Big Ball, Small Ball”, “A Cat and a Dog”, “Farm Sounds” and 91 more.