Looking for Christmas Writing Prompts for Year 1 Writers? 

This collection of eight worksheets includes four Christmas-themed writing prompts and two differentiated versions. These worksheets set your pupils up for success by providing them with the tools they need to write a successful sentence or couple of sentences about the topic of Christmas.

This resource includes four engaging writing prompts:

• Write about how you decorate your Christmas tree.
• Write a letter to Santa.
• Write about how you wrap your Christmas gifts.
• Write a story about being one of Santa’s elves.

Each writing prompt includes a word bank with words and pictures and a list of ‘I can’ statements:

• I can sound out words.
• I can use punctuation.
• I can use capital letters.
• I can use spaces.

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding  

To challenge pupils needing acceleration, have them extend their writing into a multi-paragraph piece using some of our paragraph writing resources and templates. 

For struggling writers, provide sentence frames for pupils to build their sentences. They could also benefit from talking about their writing before beginning and generating additional words or details that they could include.

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