Cold days, snow and warm drinks give children plenty to write about, and none of these prompts is about a holiday. A child with no snow outside can still pick hot cocoa for the how-to, imagine the snowman story and tell a pen pal what winter is like where they live.
Five pages, one for each kind of writing. Page 1 is an opinion organizer: the best thing to do on a cold winter day, an opinion, two reasons and an ending, with linking words to use. Page 2 is a how-to in four boxes, First, Next, Then and Last: children pick building a snowman or making hot cocoa and draw and write each step. Page 3 plans a story about a snowman that comes to life, in a beginning, middle and end. Page 4 is a letter to a pen pal in Australia, where December is summer, each part named at the side. Page 5 is an acrostic poem for WINTER.
Model each organizer on the board with a prompt of your own before children start. After page 1 and page 3, children can copy their plan onto lined paper as a finished piece. Page 4 pairs well with a map: find Australia, and talk about why its seasons are the other way round.
Talk through a prompt before writing: what is the best thing to do on a cold day, and why? Make hot cocoa together, then write the steps.
Winter writing prompts with an organizer for each kind of writing. Children give an opinion with reasons, explain how to build a snowman or make hot cocoa, tell the story of a snowman that comes to life, write to a pen pal and write an acrostic poem.
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