Christmas Daily Writing Prompts | Editable Sentence Starters

Your favourite writing prompts are back…and with a Christmas makeover! This pack includes 20 engaging writing prompts, one for every school day in December! Featuring editable sentence starters, they are easy to differentiate and suited for Foundation, Year One and Year Two.

These Christmas prompts include:

• Would you rather? A much-loved favourite, students are posed with questions such as ‘Would you rather have Rudolph’s nose or giant elf ears?’.
• Christmas Opinions! Questions designed to encourage students to form and justify an opinion!
• Make a Choice! Includes prompts such as ‘Where do you think Santa should go on Holiday?’.
• Let’s Persuade! Students apply their knowledge of the persuasive text structure, through prompts such as ‘Who should win the Christmas awards; the Elves or Santa?.
• Christmas Style! A variety of creative prompts designed to explore various text structures and encourage imaginative and critical thinking.

What’s included?

• How-to guide for use on PowerPoint.
• How-to guide for use on SeeSaw.
• How-to guide for use on Google Slides.
• Editable student prompts (Note: The activity prompts on the left side are locked, the student response prompts on the right are editable).
• A variety of 20 slides that work through the topics listed above.
• Permission to distribute online to students and parents.

*To double check if the format of these slides will work for you, I’ve released 5 of my math slides for free! If you are unsure if you will be able to utilise these on your desired platform, such as Google Slides, please download the freebie “FREE TRIAL Year One Daily Math Prompts” first!*

How they can be used in the classroom:

• Display on Smartboard for students to complete orally, on mini-whiteboards or in books.
• Print out and place in write-and-wipe sleeves (or laminate) for literacy rotations or early finishers.
• Assign slides as images on SeeSaw or other platform for students to complete on devices.
• Use on Google Slides. Instructions of how to do this have been provided, but Please test freebie first!).

How they can be used at home:

• Release slides for students to download at home. They can complete the activities orally, in their books or on devices.
• Assign slides as images on SeeSaw or other platform for students to complete on devices.