February Daily Writing Prompts National Days Journal

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How sweet is it to have a full month of daily writing prompts with no prep for you! The February Writing Prompts National Days journal helps you simplify writing. It’s your secret weapon to teach writing and teach editing!

Imagine having a month of writing warmups planned and ready for you with suggested website links. Use it for morning work, center work, homework, and extensions to science, geography, history and more.

***Watch the preview video to see all the goodness inside!***

What You Get:

You’ll get a PDF document with a link to make your own copy in Google Slides (TM). You can also download it as a Powerpoint from your Google Drive to display it for your class. If you want to simply use the printable PDF, you can do that too.

This 49 slide resource has 28 daily writing topics and 2 monthly topics.

It includes instructions for the teacher, how to assign the student pages, and a list of all the links for the teacher to preview.  The topics can be watched, read, and explored together as a class, independently, or in teams. 

Who This Is For:

• Teachers
• Homeschoolers
• 3rd grade
• 4th grade
• 5th grade
• Anyone who wants to write

Writing every day can become an enjoyable habit with writing prompts based on the list of national days and international days. They give students engaging and fun ways to write about something every day of February. The journal writing prompts help students practice the critical skills of thinking, analyzing, writing, and editing. The journal prompts are from a calendar of national days in list format.

Journal writing every day benefits students by giving them the practice they need to improve. The slides have tabs with links that allow students to quickly move to the notebook pages they need. As the teacher, you can choose if the students use the website links or not. 

Stop Spending Hours Searching for Writing Prompts. It’s Done For You!

Finding new writing prompts can be time consuming, and I know you’re busy. So I’ve done the work for you to find interesting topics. I’ve included suggested links to external websites to build background knowledge and enrich the writing experience. It connects the students to the real world, letting them enjoy authentic writing tasks. The links are age appropriate for students in grades 3-5. You can also choose to not use the links.

These quality prompts cover:

• Science
• Social Studies
• History
• Geography
• Social Issues
• Creative Writing
• Opinion Writing

Some of the February daily writing prompts:

• National Texas Day
• Groundhog Day
• Rosa Parks Day
• Safer Internet Day
• Chinese New Year
• Presidents Day

Two extra February writing journal prompts:

• Black History Month
• National Children’s Dental Health Month

Digital Self Editing Toolkit

A digital self editing toolkit is included to help students learn to self-edit and peer-edit, too. The simple system is explained in the Google slide deck. Once you’ve taught it to them, they can edit their own writing in a few easy steps. As they finish a daily journal page, they use the editing highlighter bars to correct their errors. They slide the bars across the page to find mistakes. Then they put the bars in a rubric to let you know if they feel they did great or if they need more help. It’s like a handy self editing checklist that’s interactive.

• Watch this video: CUPS Editing : Edit a Paper in Just Five Minutes to see how this digital and printable editing system works to help your students independently edit.

How Will You Use This for Writing in the Classroom?

These daily writing prompts can be used for morning work, station work, or for daily writing warm-ups. Use it every day or pick and choose the topics you want to use. It’s perfect to use in class or in virtual learning. It’s perfect for homework. What better way to celebrate National Ellis Island Day or National Kid Inventors’ Day? It’s a great way to build classroom community with mindful conversations around the topics.

Differentiation is simple with this writing journal.

Want to try it before you buy it? 

Click here ——> to try a FREE 3 day sample!

Standards covered:

• W.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing…for grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. Grades 3, 4, and 5.
• W.10 Range of Writing: “Write routinely over extended time frames… and shorter time frames…” for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Thank you for considering this resource! I appreciate you!

Suzanne

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