Diwali Writing Prompts | Paper or Digital

Help your students build writing stamina and fluency by giving them a variety of choices for Diwali writing. These no-prep prompts come in a variety of formats so you can use them any way you want. And no matter how you use them, they only take a moment to print or post in your online classroom.

This quick and easy product includes:

• teacher instructions on how to use the prompts.
• student genre reference page.
• simple criteria for each genre.
• three formats of prompts: full page, half page, and a Google Slides version so you can use the format that works for you (and your copy budget)
• three prompts for each of the ten days (that's 30 prompts) that alternate between different types of writing with a Diwali theme. Students do not need to know everything about Diwali. Each slide has at least one prompt that can be completed without background knowledge.
• a link to a blog post with more ideas on how to use the prompts.

These prompts are intended as quick writes (10-15 minutes a day) to increase fluency and interest in writing.

Ninja Note: To access the digital version, download the PDF and click on the link in the file. A copy of the text is included along the side of each digital slide to allow for text to speech software to access the text.

They were tested in fourth and fifth grade classes and work great as a start to the day activity or an end of the day wrap up.

Students choose which prompt they want to write about and the writing is not assessed.

We have sets for many different holidays and observations:

• Back to School
• Thanksgiving
• Halloween
• Remembrance Day
• Christmas
• New Year's
• Lunar New Year
• Valentine's Day
• Kindness
• Women's History Month
• St. Patrick's Day
• Holi Festival of Colours
• Earth Day
• Poetry Month
• Easter
• End of the Year
• or get them all in the Holiday Bundle

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