Daily Writing Prompts for April Spring Quick Write Journal ELA Digital and Print

April Writing Prompts and Spring Quick Write Journal gives you 33 super engaging daily writing prompts. Writing every day couldn't be easier than with this NO PREP resource. It includes a printable PDF, a Powerpoint presentation, and a link to make a digital copy in Google Slides (TM).

It's perfect for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade narrative writing, opinion writing, informational writing, and research writing topics.

Finding April writing prompts that are meaningful doesn't have to be hard! I've found writing topics students love for every day of April! This daily writing journal has a month of prompts based on the list of national days and international days. They give students something new to learn and have fun writing about every day of April.

The April writing prompts for grades 3, 4, and 5 cover science, social studies, music, history, geography, and more. It's a great way to integrate writing across the curriculum.

The daily writing prompts help students practice the critical skills of thinking, analyzing, writing, and editing. The digital version includes a self-editing toolkit. Students use to drag and drop highlighter bars across their work. The highlighters help them find and correct their errors.

This includes the PDF version which you can print and the Powerpoint version in a zip file. Use the Powerpoint to display the daily writing prompt and let your students write in their own journals. Or print the prompt pages from the PDF and let your students write directly on them.

The Daily Writing Prompts quick write journal for April is your secret weapon to get students to love writing.

Journal writing every day benefits students by giving them the practice they need to improve. The slides have tabs with links that allow students to quickly move to the notebook pages they need. When you purchase this product, you'll receive free updates each year. If you've already purchased the digital only version of this product, you can get the printable and Powerpoint by emailing me your TPT receipt number.

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Save Hours Searching for Writing Prompts

Finding new writing prompts can be time consuming, and I know you're busy. So I’ve done the work for you to find interesting topics. I’ve included external links to videos and websites to enrich the writing experience. It connects the students to the real world, letting them enjoy authentic writing tasks. The links are age appropriate for students in grades 3-5. These quality prompts cover:

• Science
• Social Studies
• History
• Geography
• Social Issues
• Creative Writing
• Opinion Writing

Digital Self Editing Toolkit

A digital self editing toolkit is included to help students learn to self-edit and peer-edit, too. The simple system is explained in the Google slide deck. Once you’ve taught it to them, they can edit their own writing in a few easy steps. As they finish a daily journal page, they use the editing highlighter bars to correct their errors. They slide the bars across the page to find mistakes. Then they put the bars in a rubric to let you know if they feel they did great or if they need more help. It's like a handy self editing checklist that's interactive.

• Watch this video: CUPS Editing : Edit a Paper in Just Five Minutes to see how to teach this editing system to help your students independently edit.

Visit my blog post about How to Teach Editing with No Stress to see how to make your own reading highlighting bars and CUPS editing toolkit. Students can use the system with colored strips of paper or guided reading highlight strips if you're using the PDF printable version of this journal.

Ways to Use This for Writing in the Classroom

These daily writing prompts can be used for:

• morning work
• station work
• daily writing warm-ups
• homework
• vacation work

Use it every day or pick and choose the topics you want to use. What better way to celebrate National Submarine Day or National Colorado Day? It's a great way to build classroom community with mindful conversations around the topics.

This 51 slide resource has 30 daily writing topics and 2 monthly topics.

It includes instructions for the teacher, how to assign the student pages, and a calendar list for the teacher.

Differentiation is simple with this writing journal.

Some of the April daily prompts:

• National Colorado Day. (Write about the great state of Colorado.)
• National Dolphin Day. (Learn and write about this gentle mammal.)
• Thomas Jefferson Day. (Write about the third United States President.)
• National Bat Appreciation Day. (Learn about what makes bats special.)
• National Eraser Day. (Compare and contrast erasers and tires.)
• National Look Alike Day (Find the differences between two pictures and write about them.)

Two April extra journal prompts:

• National Poetry Month
• National Jazz Appreciation Month

Common Core Anchor Writing Standards:

• W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing...for grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.10 Range of Writing: “Write routinely over extended time frames… and shorter time frames...” for grades 3, 4, and 5.

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