Use this set of 5 procedural writing prompts to assess your students’ procedural writing skills.
Procedural Writing Prompts for Lower Primary
Have you been studying procedural writing with your students this term? Are you ready to see how well your students can write a procedural text on a topic of their choice? If so, Teach Starter’s procedural writing prompts could be exactly the resource you are looking for!
This resource has been designed as an assessment tool that can be used at the end of your procedural writing unit. Your students should be very familiar with the structure and language features of procedural writing before engaging with this resource.
Each writing prompt in this set focuses on a different topic. The five topics included are:
- How to Make…
- How to Play…
- How to Plan…
- How to Get Ready for…
- How to Build a…
Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas based on the broad topics above. For example, a student might choose the “How to Play…” prompt and then write a procedural text about how to play hide and seek. Another might choose the same prompt, but write a procedural text about how to play handball.
Teachers may wish to use one prompt for all students, or alternatively, students could choose whichever prompt they prefer.
Suggested Use for These Procedural Writing Prompts
You might like to follow the process below when using these procedural writing prompts with your class:
- Distribute the Prompt – Distribute the chosen prompt to your students. Read through it as a class and answer any questions about the upcoming task.
- Planning Time – Provide students with time to plan their piece of writing. Ten minutes should be sufficient.
- Writing Time – Provide students with an uninterrupted period of sustained writing time to complete their procedural texts.
- Editing Time – Provide at least five minutes at the end of the writing period for students to read over and make adjustments to their writing.
Download to Access These Procedural Writing Prompts
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