Weekly Writer’s Notebook
Level: Grades 3-7
Originated by: Treetop Publishing
Writing is an important tool that students should practice regularly. By offering students a writer’s notebook and making writing prompts available for them, an educator can really inspire and help develop an important life skill.
Have your students write entries once a week for three weeks. On the fourth week develop one of the entries into a poem or short story. This process should be repeated for each month throughout the year, and at the end of the year each student can edit their final work to create an anthology of their writing.
Have your students edit and re-write their best pieces of writing into a Bare Book. This project will not only allow each students writing to develop on a weekly basis, but it will also provide a great keepsake and memory or your class.
Prompt Ideas:
- If I knew how to
- If I could fly I would
- My worst fear is
- Its the funniest thing
- If I won the lottery
- Rainbows
- I woke up 1”tall
- My worst mistake
- In 20 years I will be…
- Friendship is
- My pet dinosaur
- If I had three wishes
- Good Luck Charms
- My dog would say
- Dream Car
- About my homework…
- In the year 2099
- The day it snowed 20 ft
- If I were invisible
- If I were an animal, I’d be a
- If I could make the rules
- The noise under my bed
- If I could live anywhere
- My favorite season is
