Free Writing Prompts for Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth, and even Fifth Grade students! This printable collection of PDF writing prompts covers creative writing, opinion writing prompts, narrative, informative, persuasive, and so much more! Each writing prompt includes a fun picture and simple instructions for student-led learnings. Download, print, and cut apart for simple, low-prep writing centers you can use in your homeschool or classroom setting. Below our writing prompts are organized by grade level, type, and season so you can find just what you are looking for. If you are in need of an entire program, be sure to check out our Writing Prompt Bundle, and pair it alongside our Ready Yeti Writing Program.
What Are Writing Prompts?
Our K-5 writing prompts resource is designed to spark creativity and critical thinking in young learners. This comprehensive collection offers a wide range of engaging writing prompts tailored specifically to different grade levels, ensuring that students from kindergarten to 5th grade have access to age-appropriate writing challenges. Teachers can integrate these printable prompts into various learning contexts, including homework projects, morning work activities, writing center rotations, small group instruction, or whole group lessons. Each grade level below is organized by month, and you’ll find 24 thematic writing prompts for each month, giving you an entire year of journal writing prompts.
Kindergarten Writing Prompts
Free printable kindergarten writing prompts for an entire year! Students will work on creative, opinion, narrative, informative and persusuasive writing. Simple picture prompts will keep students engaged. Pair with our Kindergarten Writing Paper for thematic learning over the school year.
1st Grade Writing Prompts
These writing prompts help students express themselves, creating a love for writing at an early age. By offering printable prompts that encourage different types of writing, teachers can support their students in developing their handwriting, creativity, and writing abilities.
- Penmanship
- Writing
- Literacy
The Definition of Writing Prompts
These prompts serve as a powerful tool to ignite creativity and enhance students’ writing skills. By providing thought-provoking prompts tailored to different grade levels, this resource encourages students to craft full sentences, engage in storytelling, and explore their imaginations. These prompts are designed to inspire students to express themselves effectively through writing, building confidence in their abilities to communicate ideas fluently.
2nd Grade Writing Prompts
The second grade writing prompts worksheets help boost your student’s creative writing skills. Children will use these writing prompts for second grade to improve handwriting, brainstorming, fine motor, and pencil control
- Handwriting
- Writing Process
- Writing Prompts
3rd Grade Writing Prompts
A free set of printable writing prompts designed specifically for third grade writers covers narrative, informative, descriptive, comparison, and creative writing genres.
- Writing Process
- Handwriting
- Writing
Writing Prompts by Grade
From the earliest of kindergarteners to your well-versed 5th graders, there is a writing prompt for everyone! Each set of prompts was created for students specifically in that grade level. As the prompts grow, the difficulty and ability levels do too. Remind your students to capitalize proper nouns!
4th Grade Writing Prompts
Fourth Grade Writing Prompts make writing practice a breeze! With a variety of prompts that give students opportunities to write opinion, persuasive, descriptive, and narrative pieces, there’s sure to be something for every student!
- Elementary Writing
- Handwriting
- Writing Process
5th Grade Writing Prompts
Every one of the fifth-grade writing prompts pdfs includes 12 different colorful writing prompts. We have made all of the fifth grade writing prompts unique so students want to keep learning and growing in developing strong writing skills.
- Handwriting
- Elementary Writing Process
- Writing Prompts
Writing Prompts by Type
The prompts below cover seven different writing genres. Each set includes prompts designed for students in elementary and homeschool settings aged kindergarten to grade five. These free, printable writing prompt task cards are easily used to differentiate by ability level and age levels!
Creative Writing Prompts
A year of creative writing prompts for your K-5 students is at your fingertips! Check out each of the fantastic printable prompt card sets. These make great resources for morning work, quick writes, or homework writing practice prompts. Your students will love writing creatively, and you’ll love how they improve fine motor skills, creative thinking, and the art of handwriting/penmanship!
- Handwriting
- Creative Writing
- Writing Process
Comparison Writing Prompts
These free comparison writing prompts for your K-5 students is just a download away! Your students will be challenged to compare one object to another, building the skill to sort and classify while focusing!
- Handwriting
- Comparative Writing
- Compare and Contrast Process
Fun Writing Prompts
These fun writing prompts will keep your kids excited about writing! With silly, practical prompts, your students will love writing creatively, and you’ll love how they improve their penmanship!
- Handwriting
- Fun Writing
- Writing Process
Informative Writing Prompts
Informative writing prompts are our free, printable writing prompts that provide your K-5 students with a year’s worth of seasonal and holiday-themed informative prompts. These are ideal learning how to teach or inform others how to perform a task or describe an object.
- Handwriting
- Informational Writing
- Teaching step by step Process
Journal Writing Prompts
Check out each of the fantastic journal printable prompt card sets. Your students will love writing creatively, and you’ll love how they improve fine motor skills, journaling, and the art of handwriting/penmanship!
- Handwriting
- Journal Writing
- Writing Process
Opinion Writing Prompts
A year of opinion writing prompts for your K-5 students is at your fingertips! Students learn how to communicate their own thoughts on objects, food, and more!
- Handwriting
- Opinion Writing
- Writing Process
Narrative Writing Prompts
Our narrative writing prompts provide elementary students seasonal and holiday-themed narrative prompts! If you’re looking for an engaging resource to inspire K-5 students in their narrative writing journey, you’ve found it!
- Handwriting
- Narrative Writing
- Writing Process
Ready Yeti Writing Bundle
Our super silly sentence activities will give students the giggles with our Ready Yeti Writing Bundle! Children will gain a ton of opportunities to learn more about how to build sentences and identifying errors easily with our editing sentence worksheets. Students will also practice transforming ordinary sentences into extraordinary ones! These engaging and amazing editing sentence worksheets are great for morning work, take-home activities, distance learning, homeschool, and classroom centers.
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