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Tooter4 Kids: Journal Writing
This site gives you a teacher's perspective on journal writing. It looks at how effective journal writing can be for your students and more.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
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Freeology: Journal Topics
Encourage students to write in their journals with this extensive selection of journal topics.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Unlikely Lost and Found
What interesting and unusual items might you write a Lost & Found Ad for? Devote a page in your journal or writer's notebook to write several unusual Lost & Found Ads this year. Use the lost and found writing prompt generator to...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Keeping a Journal
Explore the world of journal writing with this valuable lesson plan filled with suggestions.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starters: Intriguing Titles
In this lesson, an interactive link included to help generate ideas for stories. A button is clicked and a topic is given. In a writer's notebook or journal, each student will use the topic given and develop it. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Utah Education Network
Uen: Writing Numerals
This multisensory lesson plan engages students in reading and writing numbers that are less than 20. Students will learn songs, watch video segments, and engage in tactile exercises related to writing numbers.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs
This lesson has young scholars create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality writing. A...
Character Lab
Character Lab: Gratitude Journal: Gratitude
Keep a journal where you write in detail about things you are grateful for in your life. Choose from a variety of prompts and respond in 5-6 sentences. Printables and examples are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Jack and the Beanstalk
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is designed to use as journal entry prompts based on the Classic tale of Jack and the Beanstalk and a differing perspective book Giants Have Feelings Too.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.