This Summer Writing and Words Pack has over 100 pages of fun writing activities, summer (May, June, July, end of the year) writing prompts, word work activities, and vocabulary. Use this low-prep summer activity packet with writing paper for kindergarten, first grade, or second grade to teach six different writing genres (nonfiction, poetry, personal, opinion, how-to, creative writing)!
⭐This pack includes 38 fun activities for your student authors to build language arts and writing skills during the end of the year. The activities work great for small groups, whole group writing lessons, partner activities, literacy centers, independent work, morning work, or work at home.
⭐This resource is packed with writing activities for 6 different genres and extra activities like picture prompts and story responses that pair perfectly with your spring theme. Print and pop them into your writing center, or use them to guide your writing lessons as a class!
The 38 activities included in this Summer Writing and Word Work Pack:
- Theme words vocabulary activity
- 5 Summer word activities (abc order, summer word search, making words, parts of speech, scavenger hunt)
- 2 summer sentences activities (mini book & fill-in's)
- 2 Visualizing and following directions activities
- 3 Creative writing prompts & 2 crafts
- 3 How-to procedural writing template & craft
- 3 Poetry writing activities
- 3 Non-fiction writing activities and brainstorming sheets
- 4 Personal writing activities
- 3 Opinion writing prompts & summer writing activity
- 3 List writing sheets
- 3 Write-a-Story writing prompts with pictures
- 3 Story Response activities (Mini book for 'Panda Panda What Do You See?' by Eric Carle)
>>Look at the PREVIEW for an overview of the activities and materials provided in this pack. <<
How to Use this Summer Writing and Words Pack in the Classroom:
- Use these writing prompts and templates to start a group writing lesson.
- Encourage creative writing during center time or independent writing time with a choice of different writing prompts.
- Support budding authors and focus in on different writing skills in small groups.
- Teach different writing topics in a fun and exciting way!
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sherry C. says, "Thank you so much for sharing your creativity! This packet is loaded with a wide variety of writing templates. This will be very useful at the end of the year and sending home for summer writing practice. This packet is sure to help motivate my students to write."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amy H. says, "This was perfect for me to send home with my students to prevent the 'over the summer gap' They had a chance to look through it before the last day and they were so excited to get started! Thanks for an awesome product!"
