Monthly NO PREP Journal Prompts for Beginning Writers (Bundle) Valentine Winter

Writing is a skill that requires daily practice! These simple journal prompts are designed to help BEGINNING and/or STRUGGLING writers build confidence, practice articulating thoughts, work on fine motor skills and proper letter formation.

This Monthly BUNDLE of NO PREP Journal Prompts includes the following packets

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

***EDITABLE VERSION INCLUDED in the Bundle ONLY!***

***I Can...Poster included in the Bundle***

This Monthly BUNDLE of NO PREP Journal Prompts includes the following for EACH month:

FIVE versions of the journal prompts

* 21 journal prompts with a starter phrase

*21 of the same journal prompts without the starter phrase for more advanced writers.

*2nd Grade version with dashed lines

*Smaller dashed lines

*No dashes- just lines

*Journal Cover

* Sight Word List - Simple sight words to help with spelling.

*Additional paper for students who want to write more.

*Table of Contents with all Nobember Journal Prompts

Included on each journal prompt:

*I Can Statements with text and visual support to remind students to:

-use capitals

-use finger spacing between words

-sound out and spell words

-use periods

-draw pictures to support their text

*Illustrated word bank to help spell words they might use in their writing.

*Place to draw a picture to support the writing.

***Each of the above starter prompts also come WITHOUT starter sentences for more advanced writers.

Writing Prompts included for JANUARY:

*January Journal Cover

*My favorite pet

*In January

*In winter

*When it snows

*A snowman

*When it is cold

*For breakfast

*For lunch

*In the morning

*At night

*I like to wear

*When I grow up

*My favorite shoes

*During recess

*Penguins

*My favorite toy

*My favorite fruit

*In my backpack

*A police office

*My favorite winter animal

*During art

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for FEBRUARY:

*February Journal Cover

*A Valentine…

*On Valentine's Day…

*On Groundhog Day…

*Abraham Lincoln…

*Bowling…

*Bubbles…

*Today I feel…

*An astronaut…

*At the park…

*My five senses…

*Lemonade…

*During math…

*Polly (put the kettle on)…

*Goldilocks (and the three bears)…

*Jack and Jill…

*On the playground…

*On my birthday…

*Humpty Dumpty…

*In the story (the three little pigs)…

*In the desert…

*Every day…

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for MARCH:

*March Journal Cover

*When it rains

*St. Patrick's Day

*The weather

*I like to read

*My favorite insect

*When I fly a kite

*Today I feel

*A rainbow

*A baby bird

*My favorite sweet

*On my sundae

*A frog

*Frogs like

*When I see the doctor

*I like (different dogs)

*Cats like to

*In my smoothie

*At bedtime

*My Dad and I

*My Mom and I

*In the forest

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for APRIL:

*April Journal Cover

*In Spring

*Walking in the rain

*Worms

*A vegetable garden

*Plants need

*My favorite baby animal

*In a pond

*In the rainforest

*On Easter

*For a picnic

*When I exercise

*A butterfly

*Birds

*At the pet shop

*A peanut butter and jelly sandwich

*For Earth Day

*With play dough

*At the circus

*On my pizza

*At the zoo

*A puppet show

**Extended Writing Page

Writing Prompts included for MAY:

*May Journal Cover

*My favorite weather is

*I like to collect

*At the aquarium

*On Mother's Day

*Today I feel

*My favorite spot in my house

*On Cinco De Mayo

*When I eat ice cream

*When I wash my hands

*I wish I could ride

*When I go camping

*I got hurt

*A flower needs

*Flowers have

*An ant

* A bee

*I like to play (sports)

*I would like to visit

*My favorite fruit

*I would like to learn to play (instrument)

*I like spring because

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for JUNE:

*June Journal Cover

*At the beach

*In the pool

*When it is hot

*When we barbecue

*Birds

*At the carnival

*Camping

*The itsy bitsy spider

*My favorite books are about

*On Father’s Day

*I wish I could get a (pet)

*I wear (in summer)

*A ladybug

*With a (shape) I can make a

*When I am outside

*In my fruit salad

*For art

*This summer

*I am (emotion) today because

*If I caught a (bug)

*When I am at the park

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for JULY:

*July Journal Cover

*When I make a smote

*When I eat a hot dog

*On my hamburger

*My favorite barbecue food

*On the 4th of July

*At sea

*When I build a sandcastle

*When I go fishing

*At the tide pools

*At a pool party

*I miss school because

*In my picnic basket

*I can make bubbles with

*Next year I want to

*I like (type of cold treat) the best because

*In the shade

*In my summer garden

*I like to catch (bugs)

*I wish my family could

*If I were an animal, I would be

*I like to visit

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for AUGUST

*August Journal Cover

*If I went on a Safari trip

*I like to keep cool

*It makes me (feeling) when

*I feel ______ about gong back to school

*I am really good at ______

*Under the sea

*My favorite color is ________

*I like the (place) best because

*_____ are better than ______ because (pets)

*This was the best summer because

*My favorite part about back to school

*This year I am going to work hard at

*A good friend

*If I had a fish

*It would be fun to

*A _______ would make a good school pet because

*If I could invent a new toothpaste

*When you go camping

*Mary had (retellng)

*When I ride in the car

*In my backpack

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for SEPTEMBER

*September Journal Cover

*My favorite apple snack

*The life cycle of an apple

*Johnny Appleseed

*After school I

*In the fall

*At home I have to

*I live with

*A squirrel

*An owl

*I would be fun to be a (type of career)

*Today the weather is

*I don't like (type of weather) because

*It is not nice to (poor choices in behavior)

*If I could have a class job

*If I could only bring two things on a trip

*I feel (____) today because

*My favorite dairy food

*If I could invent a new cereal

*If I had a parrot

*The best day of the school week is (_____) because

*My favorite holiday is (_____) because

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for OCTOBER

*October Journal Cover

*A firefighter

*If there is a fire (fire safety)

*A bat has (parts of the bat's body)

*A baby bat

*A spider can

*A spider has (parts of a spider's body)

*The life cycle of a pumpkin

*My favorite pumpkin treat

*My favorite fall animal

*My Jack-o-Lantern

*On Halloween, I want to

*My favorite candy

*In the fall I like to

*In the fall I wear

*Christopher Columbus

*If I were an explorer

*On Saturday morning

*My favorite reptile is a _____ because

*I feel ______ today because

*A (community worker) helps us by

*On the farm

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for NOVEMBER

*November Journal Cover

*For Thanksgiving dinner

*On Thanksgiving Day

*I am thankful for

*A turkey has

*My favorite way to eat turkey

*Some Native Americans

*Native Americans ate

*Pilgrims

*Pilgrim children

*On Veteran's Day

*You can make a pumpkin pie

*My favorite type of pie

*For lunch today

*My favorite food for dinner

*Today I feel (____) because

*The best toy I ever had

*I don't like it when

*(____) is an American symbol

*When I can't sleep

*Under my bed

*On the farm

**Extended writing page

Writing Prompts included for DECEMBER

*December Journal Cover

*When I wrap a gift

*We decorate

*I like to bake

*For Christmas

*Santa

*My family

*It would be funny if

*I wrote a letter

*I want to give a gift

*I like December because

*Today the weather

*My gingerbread house

*If I had a pet reindeer

*If I were an elf

*At a restaurant

*My favorite subject

*A detective

*If I could ride

*My favorite dinosaur

*A scientist

*Our community

**Extended writing page

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