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January Daily Writing Journal
Build narrative, imaginative, persuasive, and expository writing skills through 20 winter-themed daily journal prompts.
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Winter Writing Prompts
Inspire winter stories, descriptions and opinions with snowy scenes and seasonal questions. Choose a short response, a picture prompt or a longer piece with planning support.
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Free Sample — December Daily Writing Prompts | 2nd–3rd Grade
Give a one-week free sample of winter/December-themed daily writing prompts to preview a full month-long writing prompts pack.
Editable
Reading into writing
Winter Literacy and Math Activity Packet for K-1
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.
Descriptions & personal writing
Winter Writing Prompts
Provide a set of winter-themed creative writing prompts paired with drawing tasks to engage elementary students in narrative and descriptive writing.
Descriptions & personal writing
December Daily Writing Prompts | 2nd & 3rd Grade | Print + Digital
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.
Animals & nature
Arctic Animals Opinion Writing Step-by-Step (Winter Would You Rather)
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.
Snowy stories & dialogue
Winter Speech Bubble Writing Prompts | Creative Writing
Motivate early/hesitant writers to compose dialogue and short narrative details by imagining what characters in winter pictures are saying.
Snowy stories & dialogueDescriptions & personal writing
Snowy Adventures Writing Prompt - Winter Writing Activity
A one-page writing prompt and matching drawing prompt that has students describe and illustrate a fun day playing in the snow.
Snowy stories & dialogue
Finish the Story – Winter Writing Prompts
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).
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on Sledding
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.
Snowy stories & dialogue
Cozy Fireside Tales Writing Prompt - Winter Writing Activity
A winter-themed creative writing prompt activity asking students to write and illustrate a story about cozying up by a fireplace.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Ice and Snow Sculptures
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…
Descriptions & personal writing
Holiday Celebrations Writing Prompt - Winter Writing Activity
Give elementary students a winter-holiday-themed creative writing and drawing prompt about their own holiday celebration traditions.
Animals & nature
Directed Drawing and Creative Writing Prompts (12 Arctic Animals)
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.
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on "Igloo"
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.
Snowy stories & dialogue
Ice Skating Fun Writing Prompt - Winter Writing Activity
The two pages invite students to describe and illustrate an ice-skating scene. Brainstorm movement, sounds, and feelings before writing, then let the drawing add details that complement the response. A real experience or an imagined visit to a rink can supply the ideas.
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Welcome Winter Activity Sheets
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.
Animals & nature
Arctic Reading Comprehension Passage - Cored Ed Encyclopedia
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.
Answers included
Snowy stories & dialogue
My Snow Day | Reading & Writing Printables
A short winter-themed reading and writing packet built around a snow-day story.
Reading into writing
2025 January ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for January 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
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Descriptions & personal writing
Winter Writing Prompts for 3rd-5th Grade
A January/winter-themed writing unit providing opinion, narrative, and informative/explanatory writing prompts with graphic organizers for grades 3-5.
Descriptions & personal writing
Daily Bell Ringers Writing Prompts for Winter
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.
Reading into writing
ESL Reading Comprehension + Essay - Davos - Switzerland - Alps
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.
Animals & nature
Directed Drawing & Writing Activities: Weather
Provides directed-drawing and writing practice built around seven weather vocabulary words/images (wind, cloud, snow, storm, rain, sun, rainbow).