Writing Prompts Based on Real-Life Experiences

Thinking of a topic to write about can be a real challenge for our youngest students. Embedding writing tasks in real-life events can help inspire ideas in our littlest writers as they link their writing to their own experiences.

This set of four writing prompts has been based on the familiar experience of the season of spring. Each worksheet in this resource provides a thought-provoking writing stimulus about spring with an accompanying visual word bank for students to draw upon when writing.

Two differentiated versions of the writing prompts are provided. The first set provides a sentence starter to help students get on their way with their writing. The set of sentence starters includes:

• To grow, plants need…
• When it rains…
• A butterfly starts life as…
• I can help Earth by…

The second set does not provide a sentence starter, allowing more confident writers to start their writing however they choose.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding

For students needing acceleration, have them extend their writing into a multi-paragraph piece.

For students requiring additional support, encourage them to verbalise their ideas before writing, or perhaps draw a picture of what they will write about first.

Additionally, you could project the worksheet onto a screen, work through one prompt as a class, and then have your students write a paragraph for a different prompt independently in their workbooks.

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This resource was created by Anna Helwig, a Teach Starter collaborator.