Need Winter Writing Worksheets for 1st Graders? What about Kindergarten? 

Do you need prompts for writing for primary-grade students? Do you struggle with teaching sentence and paragraph formation at the primary level? If so, this resource may be the tool you need to guide your students into becoming writing superstars!

Each worksheet in this resource provides students with thought-provoking Winter story starters and accompanying visual word banks for reference. Students will create their own stories on the topics and use the writing lines to develop quality writing pieces. The resource includes engaging writing prompts such as:

• In the winter, I wear…
• To build a snowman, you need…
• My favorite winter activity is…
• To warm up from the cold, I…
• On a snow day, I like to…

The resource includes 5 writing prompts for first graders covering different aspects of Winter (Clothing, weather, activities). Simply print the sheet you need, and you’re off on the journey to amazing writing samples. 

Tips for Differentiation + Scaffolding 

In addition to independent student work time, use this worksheet as an activity for:

• Guided writing groups 
• Formative Assessment
• Lesson wrap-up
• Fast finishers 
• Homework assignments

To challenge students needing acceleration, have them extend their writing into a multi-paragraph piece using our Text Planning Template.

For struggling readers and writers, provide sentence frames to help students build their sentences. They could also benefit from discussing their writing before beginning, generating additional words or details to include.

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the writing prompt worksheet PDF or Google Slides resource file.

Additionally, you could project the worksheet onto a screen, work through one prompt as a class, and have your students write their paragraphs in their notebooks.

Anna Helwig, a teacher in Arizona and Teach Starter collaborator, created this resource.

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