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No-Prep December Writing Prompts Packet for writing across genres! This pack has Opinion, Narrative, Informational, and How-To Writing Activities for Christmas, Gingerbread, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, winter, and more!
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Looking for an easy way to keep your students engaged in meaningful writing during the month of December?
This writing pack includes a variety of no-prep, genre-based activities that are perfect for December and the holiday season. It works great as a writing packet, journal, morning work, or writing portfolio.
Includes writing activities that support narrative, opinion, informational, how-to, list writing, and more, with differentiated activities for kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade students. Just print and go!
Differentiated to meet the needs of ALL your students: from drawing and labeling to story and paragraph writing.
⭐What’s Included:
- 170+ writing pages
- Cover options for November- turn into a writing journal or portfolio!
⭐Narrative, Opinion, Informational, & Creative Writing prompts
✅✔Draw & Label:
- Directed drawing: Santa, Mrs. Claus, reindeer, stocking, elf
- Adding details: Draw setting
- Adding details: Draw characters
✅✔Label & Write a Sentence:
- Gingerbread Baker
- Hanukkah
- Kwanzaa
✅✔List-Writing:
- Nice list
- Favorite cookies
- Signs of Christmas
- Reindeer names
- Elves at work
- Santa’s things (I spy)
✅✔Sentences (x number of pages):
- One-page crafts x 3: gingerbread man, family, house
- Cut & paste sentences x 4
- Trace and finish the sentence x 5
- Build a sentence x 12
- Write 3 (statement, question, exclamation) x 5
✅✔Narrative Writing:
- Spin-a-story x 6
- 3 and 4-part stories (differentiated) x 9
- Picture bank story x 4
✅✔Opinion:
- This or That x 4 (would you rather?)
- Rank 3 x 3 (students number 3 choices in order of preference, write reasons)
- Thumbs Up or Down? x 5
- Debate it x 5 (students write pros and cons for a topic)
✅✔How-to Writing:
- How to decorate a tree
- How to make hot chocolate
- How to make gingerbread
- How to wrap a present
- How NOT to make cookies
- How NOT to make the nice list
- Recipe for cookies
✅✔Informational Writing:
- All About Hanukkah
- All About Kwanzaa
- All About Christmas
- All About Traditions
- Fact and Opinion x 7
- Compare & Contrast x 5
✅✔BONUS: Creative Writing:
- Spot the Differences
- Santa Riddle
- Gifts I’d give
- FAMILY acrostic poem
- Holiday foldable cards x 5
- Design and write x 4
- Letter to Santa
- Wanted: gingerbread man
⭐Differentiated Levels:
- Drawing & labeling pages for your beginning or struggling writers
- Sentence writing
- Story/ paragraph
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