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Abstract The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of some instructional activities in developing EFL writing skills among second year preparatory school students. The study followed a pretest-posttest experimental – control group design. The study sample consisted of 100 students from EL-Khour Preparatory School for Boys and Girls and were divided into two groups: 50 students for the experimental group and 50 for the control group. For identifying the most important EFL writing skills required for second year preparatory school students, a writing skills list was developed, and approved by a jury of EFL curriculum and teaching methods professors. Then, a pre-post writing test, a rubric for scoring the writing test (RSWT). Students in both the experimental and control group were pre-tested. Then, students of the experimental group were taught through (IAP) and students of the control group were taught in the traditional method. Finally, students in both groups were posttested using the same tools (test with a rubric). The study showed that: first, the experimental groups out performed the control group in the posttest of overall writing as well as writing sub-skills. Second, there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of pre-test and post test of the experimental group at (0.01) and these differences can be attributed to using (IAP). Hence, it was concluded that the program proved to be highly effective in developing second year preparatory school students EFL writing skills. |