Third Grade Writing Prompts Worksheets
Are you teaching writing to 2nd graders? One of the main frustrations of teaching writing to elementary kids would have to be motivation and engagement.
Unless students are completely intrinsically motivated when it comes to writing activities, hooking their attention is a challenge.
That’s where writing prompts come in handy! An absolute game changer because students are already provided with the creative idea.
Cognitively, it frees up their brains to think of the writing process – which includes grammars and sentence structure.
In my first years of teaching, I remember thinking that writing prompts are more for reluctant writers or students who require support.
Although this very true, it is also evident that writing prompts benefit everyone.
In high school, students are often provided with writing prompts in English exams. In job interviews, people are often provided with interview prompts
and so forth. Providing our students with important writing scaffolds such as writing prompts, clearly help foster writer confidence and success in writing ability.
Students should have the opportunity to write everyday – whether it is journal writing, creative writing or ‘drop everything and write’ sessions – the fact remains that kids these daily opportunities, if they are to become proficient writers.
Third Grade Writing Prompts Worksheets
The following are some ideas for writing prompts for kids to foster excitement and motivation during writing lessons:
- Writing a topic on the board (eg: I woke up this morning and saw a…)
- Place topics in a ‘Writing Prompt Jar’ and select a student daily to pull out a writing prompt of the day.
- Plan ahead with a NO PREP writing resource packed with engaging writing prompts that covers all year (weekly writing prompt)
If you choose the latter option, there are over 50 writing worksheets with writing prompts ready to go for writing center ideas. There are writing templates
for all seasons of the year – winter, spring, summer, fall and includes themes such as: St Patricks Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
friendship, family, back to school and much more. Celebrate students’ writing by displaying on the classroom bulletin board.
Third Grade Writing Prompts Worksheets
Available in both color or b/w versions, this no-prep pack consists of the following:
- I like back-to-school because…
- Halloween is fun because…
- I like cupcakes because…
- My favorite ice cream flavor is… (US spelling)
- My favourite ice cream flavor is… (UK spelling)
- Thanksgiving is special because…
- My Favorite Pet is…(US spelling)
- My Favourite Pet is…(US spelling)
- I like fall because… (girl image)
- I like fall because… (boy image)
- I like winter because…
- I like summer because…
- I like spring because…
- St Patrick’s Day Is…
- At Easter Time, I like to…
- I respect my friends because…
- I love my family because…
- I like Santa because…
- I like Penguins because…
- I can build a snowman by…
- In winter, I like to wear…
- In summer, I like to wear…
- I love playing in the snow because…
- I enjoy swimming because…
- I eat popcorn when…
- I like art because…
- I enjoy music because…
- I love rainbows because…
PS Are you teaching reading comprehension and looking for no prep worksheets and graphic organizers? Then check out this blog!
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