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Christmas Quick Write Choice Board
A Christmas-themed digital choice board of six creative-writing story starters, for use in PowerPoint or Google Classroom, with each slide linking to optional background writing music.
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Christmas Writing Prompts
Bring Christmas into writing lessons with stories, letters, opinions, poetry and reading responses. Choose a writing task first, then match the reading and handwriting demands to your class.
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Letters to Santa
Dear Santa Letter, Christmas Wish List, Homeschool Writing Prompt
Forever June Digital Design I am excited to introduce my pre-made Dear Santa Letter & Drawing Activity! This easy to complete craftivity is an excellent resource for teachers of children in preschool programs, students in pre-k and Kindergarten classrooms, school aged students in grade 1-2. Works perfectly for preschool classrooms,…
Reading & response
Santa Claus ESL Reading Comprehension - Christmas reading worksheet
An ESL reading comprehension lesson about the origins of Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas history), building vocabulary, reading comprehension, discussion, and creative writing skills.
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Story startersOpinion & reflection
Christmas Writing Prompts for 3rd-5th Grade
Build opinion, narrative, and informative/explanatory writing skills through a December/Christmas-themed writing unit.
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Roll-A-Story Christmas Themed
A Christmas-themed narrative writing activity where students roll dice to generate story elements (character, time, place, conflict/plot) then plan and write a short story.
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Story startersOpinion & reflection
20 High School ELA Christmas Photo Writing Prompts Bundle
Christmas-themed photo writing prompts for high-school ELA, bundled with note-taking sheets and a grading rubric spreadsheet.
Opinion & reflection
Christmas Opinion Writing Step-by-Step (Winter Holiday Would You Rather)
Guides students through researching two Christmas-themed characters and writing a 'would you rather' opinion piece based on that research.
Story startersPoetry & crafts
Christmas Writing Toppers
Provide decorative writing-prompt 'toppers' (reindeer, Santa, snowman, elf) paired with open-ended Christmas story starters to prompt creative writing.
Reading & response
The Grinch (2018) - Elementary English Lesson Plan & Worksheet Pack
A complete 2-hour ELA lesson plan and companion worksheet pack built around viewing the 2018 movie The Grinch, teaching Christmas/feelings vocabulary, comprehension, and character development.
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Poetry & crafts
Christmas Acrostics and Words in Words Worksheets - EBOOK
Practice vocabulary-building and creative writing with Christmas-themed 'words in a word' letter puzzles and acrostic poems.
Story startersOpinion & reflection
Christmas Writing Prompts Pack
Give students a varied set of Christmas-themed writing prompts (short-answer, list-making, recipe/procedural, and free-write formats).
Reading & response
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street: 2-Hour Lesson Plan & Worksheets
A 2-hour lesson plan built around viewing the 'Christmas Eve on Sesame Street' TV special, teaching literacy, sequencing, vocabulary, and social-emotional themes of friendship, kindness, and giving.
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Story startersOpinion & reflection
Christmas Writing Journal
Provide a themed journal of Christmas writing prompts to build creative and personal-narrative writing skills.
Story startersOpinion & reflection
December Weekly Interactive Writing Prompts
An editable, Christmas/holiday-themed interactive writing prompt set organized by week, giving students a choice of creative writing prompts for each week of December.
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Reading & response
Novel Study Worksheets on "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
Post-reading novel-study worksheet for "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens: guides students through a character web, a place/setting web, a stave-by-stave summary grid, and reflection/creative-writing prompts.
Reading & response
No Prep Christmas Activity Pack
A print-and-go Christmas-themed activity packet with word games, creative writing prompts and a story-elements chart, for independent work or small groups.
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hristmas Writing Prompts with Word Bank - Christmas Creative Writing
Christmas-themed creative writing prompts for young students, each pairing a simple holiday scenario prompt with a word bank to support spelling and idea generation.
Reading & response
Twas the Night Before Christmas Novel Study Guide
A novel/poem study guide built around Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit from St. Nicholas)", giving students vocabulary, comprehension, critical-thinking, writing, and graphic-organizer activities tied to the text.
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10 WRITING PROMPTS OF CHRISTMAS | WRITING
Ten Christmas-themed creative writing prompts to prompt short student writing responses.
Reading & response
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on Santa Claus
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students a reading passage and paired writing activity about the figure and traditions of Santa Claus to build English reading comprehension and written expression.
Christmas Day Storyboard
One page lays out six panels, each beginning with a sentence starter that walks through the events of Christmas Day in order: what happened on Christmas Eve, waking up Christmas morning, their favorite present and why, Christmas lunch, the afternoon after lunch, and the moments before bed. Students complete each starter with two to three lines of their own writing, along with a name and date field at the top.
Reading & response
Christmas Shopping Comprehension And Story Writing Prompt
Build reading comprehension and inferencing skills through a descriptive Christmas shopping passage, then extend into creative narrative writing using a second read-aloud story as a model.
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Story startersOpinion & reflection
December Daily Writing Journal
A daily writing journal with 20 seasonal (December/winter) writing prompts spanning narrative, imaginative, persuasive, and expository writing.
Writing Prompts Kindergarten to Grade 1
Product Description Writing Prompts for Kindergarten to grade 1 is a great writing exercise for young children to learn writing skills, pencils skills, spelling, imagination and learning new vocabulary.