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Build narrative, imaginative, persuasive, and expository writing skills through 20 winter-themed daily journal prompts.
Includes: 20 dated journal writing prompts (winter-themed: five senses, South Pole scientist, snowflake, indoor/outdoor preference, snowed-in week, favorite winter… · extra blank lined pages
Free download Give a one-week free sample of winter/December-themed daily writing prompts to preview a full month-long writing prompts pack.
Includes: Week 1 Freebie December Daily Writing Prompts Digital.pptx (7 slides: title + 5 themed prompts + credits)
No-prep winter-themed literacy and math activity packet combining a nonfiction reading passage, poem response, writing prompts, and letter-formation practice for K-1.
Includes: informational text: The Winter Season (with comprehension questions) · poem: Why I Love Winter (with reading response questions) · Winter: Draw 4 Things worksheet
Provide a set of winter-themed creative writing prompts paired with drawing tasks to engage elementary students in narrative and descriptive writing.
25 December/winter-themed daily writing prompts organized into 5 weekly recurring themes (Magical Monday, Snowy Tip Tuesday, Wintry Would You Rather Wednesday, Throwback Thursday: Frosty Edition, Festive Free Write Friday), provided in both print and digital (slide deck) formats, for 2nd/3rd grade.
Includes: print PDF version of the prompts (37 pages)
A research-based opinion writing activity (Love of Learning Live) in which students research two assigned Arctic animals and argue which they would rather be, using 'Would You Rather' writing prompts.
Includes: Arctic animal topic cards in color and black & white (arctic fox, arctic hare, arctic wolf, beluga whale, Dall sheep, moose, narwhal, orca, ox, penguin, polar… · opinion writing prompt cards, including a blank/customizable prompt option
Motivate early/hesitant writers to compose dialogue and short narrative details by imagining what characters in winter pictures are saying.
Includes: Instructions/how-to-use page · 10 illustrated 'What Are They Saying?' speech-bubble writing prompt pages with sample dialogue shown for two of them
A one-page writing prompt and matching drawing prompt that has students describe and illustrate a fun day playing in the snow.
Includes: writing prompt page ('Snowy Adventures') · matching drawing prompt page
No-prep creative-writing packet giving students a themed story-starter sentence to finish in their own words, with two page layouts per prompt (a blank version and one with illustration space).
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students a reading passage and paired writing activity about sledding as a winter activity to build English reading comprehension and written expression.
Includes: reading passage (~1 page, multi-paragraph informational/narrative text) · reading comprehension questions (short-answer, blank lines for handwritten response) · vocabulary tasks (write synonyms of given words from the text)
A winter-themed creative writing prompt activity asking students to write and illustrate a story about cozying up by a fireplace.
Includes: writing prompt page ("Describe snuggling up by the fireplace...") · companion drawing prompt page ("Draw children gathered around a fireplace...")
Gives ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about ice and snow sculpture traditions, from 17th-century Chinese ice lanterns to Russian ice palaces and modern festivals, paired with comprehension, vocabulary and true/false questions and follow-up writing prompts, to build reading comprehension and written English…
Includes: single-page reading passage (informational nonfiction text) · comprehension questions (short-answer) · vocabulary/synonym questions
Give elementary students a winter-holiday-themed creative writing and drawing prompt about their own holiday celebration traditions.
Includes: one writing-prompt page ('Holiday Celebrations') asking students to describe their favorite winter holiday celebration · one drawing-prompt page asking students to draw children participating in holiday festivities
Combine directed step-by-step drawing practice with creative writing prompts for 12 arctic animals, to build drawing/illustration skills alongside descriptive or narrative writing.
Includes: homeschool/co-op class promotional page (not instructional content) · assembly/usage instructions · 8-step directed drawing worksheets for 12 arctic animals, 3 differentiated copies each (Arctic Fox, Arctic Hare, Arctic Wolf, Harp Seal, Narwhal…
An ESL/EFL reading-comprehension and writing-activity worksheet built around a single nonfiction passage about igloos (Inuit snow-house shelters of the Arctic), used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and English writing skills.
Includes: one nonfiction reading passage with quoted expert/fan commentary · short-answer and true-or-false comprehension questions (blank answer lines, no answers given) · vocabulary/synonym-writing prompts
Grab your coat and mittens, well, metaphorically and get ready to skate straight into the land of creativity with the Ice Skating Fun Writing Prompt! This activity invites your students to imagine themselves gliding across a rink, spinning into stories about their frosty adventures. Will they recount their first hilarious…
Two winter-themed activity sheets: a sequencing/reading-comprehension activity using a short passage about dressing for winter, and a writing-prompt sheet about winter.
Includes: winter reading passage · sequencing cut-and-paste activity (numbered 1-4) · writing-prompt sheet ('In the winter I like to___')
A 'Cored Ed Encyclopedia' style reading-comprehension resource teaching facts about the Arctic (location/geography, midnight sun and polar night, tundra, permafrost, Arctic animals, Indigenous peoples, and climate change) through a leveled informational passage.
Includes: pre-reading trivia (5 facts) · informational reading passage on the Arctic · mixed comprehension questions (4 multiple-choice + 3 short-answer)
A short winter-themed reading and writing packet built around a snow-day story.
Includes: one-page reading passage ('Surprise Snow Day!') · 4-box cut-and-paste sequencing activity · two 'My Sensational Snow Day' writing prompt templates
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for January 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
Includes: Social media links sheet
A January/winter-themed writing unit providing opinion, narrative, and informative/explanatory writing prompts with graphic organizers for grades 3-5.
Includes: cover/intro page · Opinion Writing Organizer(s) and prompts · Narrative writing organizer(s) and prompts
Provide a week's worth of winter-themed daily writing prompts ('bell ringers') for classroom warm-up writing practice, delivered as a prompt slideshow paired with a printable writing journal.
Includes: printable daily writing journal (Monday-Friday format, repeated) with guidelines and a reader-feedback rubric on each page
Give ESL/EFL students at middle and high school level a nonfiction reading passage about Davos, a Swiss Alps town known for its winter tourism and history as a sanatorium destination, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false argument questions and personal or comparative essay writing prompts.
Includes: reading passage (3 pages) · comprehension questions · vocabulary questions
Provides directed-drawing and writing practice built around seven weather vocabulary words/images (wind, cloud, snow, storm, rain, sun, rainbow).
Includes: per-topic set of 5 pages: teacher copy of the directed drawing, word-tracing/spelling page, drawing page, lower-grade writing prompt page, upper-grade writing…