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Looking for a fun way during January to engage students in your daily writing centers? These January writing prompts are perfect and offer students a variety of different writing types. These January prompts were created with the primary student in mind.
These engaging writing prompts include:
- expository
- descriptive
- narrative and
- persuasive formats
Available in PRINT & GOOGLE SLIDES format
Perfect for your writing centers or fast finishers!
31 Daily National Day themed Writing Prompts with 2 blank editable slides
Writing Paper for each prompt in two different lined formats with 4 blank editable paper formats
These daily prompts are fun because they focus on National Days of the year! Students will write about National Spaghetti Day or for National Pass Gas day explain why passing gas in public is OK! **Most of the prompts are not holiday related**
January 1st-31st, I’ve got you covered! Editable slides are available for you to add more prompts or change out the ones that I have provided.
National Days included in this daily calendar writing pack are:
- New Year’s Day
- Swiss Cheese Day
- Festival of Sleep Day
- National Spaghetti Day
- National Bird Day
- Take a Poet to Lunch Day
- Pass Gas Day
- Bubble Bath Day
- Word Nerd Day
- Houseplant Appreciation Day
- Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
- National Marzipan Day
- Make Your Dream Come True Day
- Dress Up Your Pet Day
- National Hat Day
- Nothing Day
- Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Day
- National Thesaurus Day
- Popcorn Day
- Penguin Day
- Hugging Day
- Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day
- Handwriting Day
- Compliment Day
- Opposites Day
- Green Juice Day
- Chocolate Cake Day
- Lego Day
- Puzzle Day
- Croissant Day
- Eat Brussel Sprouts Day
January Daily Writing Prompts | January Writing Centers
$4.99
Grades: 1st – 3rd
Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing
Format: Google Apps, Microsoft PowerPoint
Total Pages: 31 prompts with writing pages / 97 pages total
Answer Key: NA
Teaching Duration: NA
Common Core Standards:
CCSSW.1.1
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSSW.1.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSSW.1.3
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
CCSSW.2.1
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
CCSSW.2.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
CCSSW.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
CCSSW.3.1
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
CCSSW.3.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
CCSSW.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSSW.3.1a
Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
CCSSW.3.1b
Provide reasons that support the opinion.
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