October Writing Journal Prompts

Description

Daily writing will help students improve both their reading and writing skills. Differentiated formats and checklists provide age-appropriate writing prompts for kids in pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade.

This October writing journal pack includes seasonal writing prompts covering Community Helper, Spider, Bat, Monster, and Halloween themes as well as some general nonseasonal prompts.

Print. Go digital. Or do a combination of both!

Because we know kids are at all different stages in the writing process we’ve also included both unlined and lined journal response pages.

If you already have pre-made journals use the mini prompts and glue them directly into your existing journals.

The digital prompts can be projected on a digital device so that the prompts can be introduced and discussed before students write.

This 90-page PDF printable set includes:

1) Tips for and a quick overview of Writer’s Workshop

2) Journal Cover Page Options (3 with Images to Color and 1 with Blank Space for Child to Draw)

3) Journal Pages (with lines and without lines)-34 prompts in all!

–6 Community Helper Theme Prompts

–5 Spider Theme Prompts

–6 Bat Theme Prompts

–5 Monster Theme Prompts

–7 Halloween Theme Prompts

–5 General Prompts

4) Extended Page with Lines (for advanced writers)

5) Mini Prompts (to be cut and glued into notebooks)

6) Directions and a link to the Digital Prompts in Google Slides™

DIGITAL BONUS!

The digital version also includes Writing Steps and Writing Checklists in three differentiated lists. These can be displayed before and after writing to remind kids of the key details to remember when drafting and reviewing their responses.

Inside the digital version there are also blank starter slides so that you can add your own prompts, use a blank prompt page for modeled writing, or create your own versions of the the writing steps and writing checklists pages.