Third Grade Writing Prompts Worksheets

Are you teaching writing to 2nd graders? One of the main challenges of teaching writing to elementary kids is often motivation and engagement.

Unless students are motivated when it comes to writing activities, it is difficult to have engagement in learning.

So tat’s where writing prompts come in! Writing prompts are an absolute game changer because the provide students with the foundations of a creative idea that they can grow.

Furthermore it reduces cogitive overload, which in turn frees up the brain to think of thefocus on the writing process – sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar and text cohesion.

In my first years of teaching, I remember thinking that writing prompts are more for reluctant writers or students who require support. Although this is accurate, 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 elementary students with writing prompts helps foster writer confidence and with enough practice, success at writing!

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:

Write a topic on the board (eg: I woke up this morning and saw a…)
Place writing prompts in a ‘Writing Ideas Jar’ and have a student pull out a prompt or idea for daily journal writing..
Click on this NO PREP writing resource packed with engaging writing prompts that covers all year (weekly writing prompt)

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.