It's Winter!! Kindergarten Math & Literacy Center: Writing
A single winter-themed writing prompt worksheet for kindergarten students to practice narrative writing.
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A single winter-themed writing prompt worksheet for kindergarten students to practice narrative writing.
A high-school reflective/personal-narrative writing prompt set themed around winter-to-spring seasonal metaphors for growth and resilience, with supporting note-taking sheets and a grading rubric.
Give elementary students a winter-holiday-themed creative writing and drawing prompt about their own holiday celebration traditions.
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.
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.
Can’t decide between the cozy chill of winter and the fresh blooms of spring? Neither can your students, and that's exactly why they need Winter or Spring? My Favorite and Why. In this humorous writing prompt, students will declare their allegiance to one season or the other—and they’ll need to back it up with convincing (and probably…
An ESL/EFL reading-comprehension and writing-activity worksheet built around a single nonfiction passage about Jack Frost (winter folklore figure, origins and pop-culture portrayals), used to practice reading comprehension, vocabulary, and English writing skills.
An ESL/EFL reading-comprehension and writing worksheet built around a nonfiction passage on the history and practice of dog sledding (mushing), including the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, from its Indigenous Arctic origins to modern competitive racing.
A narrative/creative writing activity where students imagine and write about a personal 'snow day adventure,' including planning and self-editing.
Provide a comprehensive novel study for Gary Paulsen's Brian's Winter, with teacher-facing background/answer materials and student-facing vocabulary, comprehension, and extension activities organized by chapter groups.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the science and cultural history of the winter solstice.
A no-prep bundle of winter-themed language arts activities (crossword, word scramble, word search, glyph, creative writing prompts) for independent or group classroom use.
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet for teen/adult English learners, using a short nonfiction-style article about the Winter Olympic Games to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and essay-writing skills.
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary-in-context, and formal/creative writing skills for middle and high school English learners using a nonfiction passage about Greenland and the Arctic.
Give ESL/EFL students a three-page nonfiction reading passage about Harbin, China (the 'Ice City') - its history, Chinese-Russian cultural mix, and winter festival culture, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and extended-writing tasks to build English reading and writing skills.
Give ESL/EFL students a three-page nonfiction reading passage about Hokkaido, Japan - its geography, Ainu heritage, and winter culture including the Sapporo Winter Festival, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and extended-writing tasks to build English reading and writing skills.
A reflective journal activity where students respond to four prompts about holiday traditions, presents, favourite foods, and gratitude, available in a Christmas or generic Winter Holiday version.
Give students Christmas/winter-themed sentence-starter writing prompts to complete into their own short story.
A daily writing journal with 20 seasonal (December/winter) writing prompts spanning narrative, imaginative, persuasive, and expository writing.
Provide a full month of short daily ELA warm-up ('bell ringer') activities for high school students, rotating through grammar correction, creative writing, vocabulary, poetry, and literary analysis, with a December/winter/Christmas theme.
A set of themed daily writing/journal prompts for the month of January.
January Weekly Interactive Writing Prompts is an editable resource for 3rd-6th grade language arts teachers to use in Google Classroom.
Encourage young writers with these fun seasonal and holiday photo prompts! Students study an engaging full-page image then let their imaginations run wild, building stories and making connections.
A one-page writing prompt and matching drawing prompt that has students describe and illustrate baking treats on a snowy day.