Informative Prompts Teaching Resources
A collection of writing prompt resources to help guide your students' informative writing. Use these fact files, stimulus sheets and writing scaffolds to encourage your students to research and write about different topics such as animals, objects, occupations, natural phenomena and more.
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5 Information Report Writing Prompts
Use this set of 5 writing prompts to assess your students’ informative writing skills.
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Elephants Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about elephants with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Creative Writing Prompt Choice Boards - Lower Primary
Encourage your little learners to write with fun writing prompts for years 1 and 2.
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Gemstones Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about gemstones with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Eagles Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about eagles with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Informative Texts Writing Tasks - Fact Files and Scaffolding Sheet
A set of 5 fact files and a scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Informative Paragraph Starters - Topic Sentence Cards
20 topic sentences to be used at the beginning of an informative paragraph.
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Animal Adaptations - Informative Writing Prompt Worksheets
Write to describe animals and their adaptations with a printable pack of informative writing worksheets.
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Topic Sentence Starter Cards
A pack of 32 narrative, persuasive and report writing sentence starter cards.
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Daily Writing Prompts Calendars - Upper Primary
Inspire your students and encourage them to write regularly with a set of printable Daily Writing Prompts in calendar format.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Weather
A fact file about weather and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Biography Timeline Template
Use this multipurpose timeline template for a variety of assignments, projects, and more!
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Cars Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about cars with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – Why Do Volcanoes Erupt?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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What Causes the Seasons? Explanation Text Writing Task
Use this scaffolded writing task to have students write about how seasons change.
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Firefighters Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about firefighters with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Giza Pyramids
A fact file about The Giza Pyramids and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Cupcakes
A fact file about cupcakes and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Informative Texts Writing Task - Lions
A fact file about lions and scaffolding sheet which can be used to write an informative text.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does the Water Cycle Work?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Explanation Text Writing Task – How Does a Plane Fly?
A scaffolded writing task for students to complete when learning about the explanation text type.
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Doctors Fact File and Report Writing Scaffold
Support your students in writing an information report about doctors with this fact file and writing scaffold.
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Procedural Writing Activity - How to Make a Sundae
Inspire students to generate procedural writing texts with a fun, summer-themed end-of-year writing assignment and craft.
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How to Be a Grandparent - Grandparents' Day Writing Prompts
Draw and write to create a fun “How to Be a Grandparent” handbook to share with loved ones on Grandparents’ Day.
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Weathering and Erosion – RACES Writing Strategy Worksheets
Combine reading, writing and science with two worksheets about weathering and erosion using the RACES writing strategy for text evidence.
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Fire Safety for Kids - Procedural Writing Prompts
Ignite your students' knowledge of fire safety and informative writing with printable fire safety writing prompt worksheets.
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'All About ...' - Informational Text Template
A template students can use for informative writing.
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Gold Miners' Bulletin Project
A creative writing newspaper project in which students design and write the front page of an imagined newspaper from the Australian Gold Rush era.
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Spider Writing Worksheets - Year 1
Differentiate writing instruction in year 1 with a group of leveled informational writing prompts about spiders
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Write About It! Recycling Writing Prompt Worksheets
Differentiate writing instruction in primary grades with informational writing prompts about recycling and conservation.
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Constructed Response Rubrics - R.A.C.E & R.A.C.E.S
Make scoring constructed response writings easy with printable constructed response rubrics.
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Characteristics of Animals - Year 1 Writing Activities
Help your young students read and write about features of animals with a printable Animal Characteristics Write the Room activity.