The importance of writing in a student's life is essential not only for their school career, but also for their effective participation in the social world. Despite the undeniable importance of this language, Brazil is still a country with serious educational problems, with thousands of children and adolescents experiencing serious difficulties in acquiring this content, which involves a highly complex process. This process requires students to have resources such as interest, attention, self-esteem and persistence, among others, which are linked to motivation to learn. This variable, in turn, has been pointed out in the literature as an aspect of great importance for school learning, as was analysed in this study, which sought through psycho-pedagogical work with students diagnosed as having difficulties in writing, to work not only on this school content, but also on motivation to learn, demonstrating at the end of the work that it was an important link between the two.