Are your students struggling to come up with things to write when you take a literacy lesson? Avoid writer's block and use these spring writing prompts to help students move beyond topic struggles. Inside this pack, you will find everything you need to create a fun and engaging writing lesson.

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This file contains both US and UK spelling variations & contains editable parts.

This easy-to-use pack contains:

• 10 different spring-themed topics for writing
• 3 different options for differentiation
• Writing checklist at the bottom of each sheet (editable)
• 10 large matching spring-themed cut and paste images to help students decorate their work and create a fun classroom display of writing

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Aligns with the Australian Curriculum (ACARA):

Foundation Year English

• Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (ACELY165)
• Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops (ACELY1652)
• Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations (ACELY1653)
  

Year 1 English

• Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)
• Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation (ACELY1662)
  

Year 2 English

• Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY167)
• Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure (ACELY1672)

Aligns with the Common Core Curriculum:

CCSSCCRA.W.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

CCSSCCRA.W.5
Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

CCSSCCRA.L.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSSCCRA.L.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

CCSSCCRA.L.3
Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.

CCSSCCRA.L.4
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

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