Are you looking for some writing prompts that are related to an April theme?  You've come to the right place!
Narrative:
Imagine you are attending opening day of your favorite baseball team. Describe your experience at the field. http://bit.ly/2ovsdzc

On April 20, 1933, Amelia Earhart took First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a flight. Write a narrative from the point of view of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. How did she feel on her first flight? What did she talk to Amelia Earhart about during the flight? What are some things she saw while in flight? What was it like to take-off/land?

You’ve probably heard the saying, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” What would happen if it actually rained cats and dogs? Write a story about the day it rained cats and dogs.

Pretend you are a brand-new umbrella. Write all about your first day in the rain.

Imagine you could interview Mother Nature. Write five questions you would ask. Then choose one question and write what her answer might be.

Persuasive:
You are the Easter Bunny and decided to start eating ___ instead of carrots. Persuade your friend why it is a good idea. http://bit.ly/2oqYtU7

Humanity has decided to change planets and needs to sell Earth. You’ve been hired to sell it. How do you advertise it and what’s the price?

Earth Day is in the month of April. Explain why everyone should do his or her part to take care of our planet.

Write a letter to one of your classmates explaining why it’s important to recycle.

Opinion:
Should you crate your pet? Why or why not? http://bit.ly/2nJ2UwF

What do you think is the Earth’s most serious environmental problem is? What can children do to help?

If you were asked to invent a new flavor of jellybean, what would it be and why?

The best thing to do on a rainy day is…

Would you rather spend a spring day hiking in the woods or planting a garden? Why?

Descriptive:
Describe a thunderstorm to someone who has never experienced one. Give details about what you see, hear, and smell. Be sure to describe how you feel during the storm.

Visit a flower garden or view one in a book or online. Describe what you see.

Write about your ideal vacation. Where would you go? Why would you go there? Describe the scene, the weather, and the activities you would do during your vacation in detail.

April is Keep America Beautiful Month. Describe the most beautiful place that you have ever seen. What made it the most beautiful place? How do you get to this place?

Informative:
Read about Earth Day and write an informative essay including: What is it? How did it form? Why is April 22nd Earth Day? Who are the important people? http://bit.ly/2odKr9h

What is Patriot’s Day? When is it celebrated? What important events took place? Who are important people?

Many people do spring cleaning in April. What is spring cleaning and why do so many people spring clean?

All About D.E.A.R Day. What is D.E.A.R Day and why do we celebrate it?

How-to:
Write detailed instructions on how to fly a kite.

Write detailed directions on how to plant a spring garden.

Pretend that “Spring Fever” is a real illness. Make a list of symptoms that people with Spring Fever would have. Create a detailed treatment plan for a patient suffering from Spring Fever.

You are planning a spring picnic for your class or family. Plan a menu and write about what games and activities there will be.

Poetry:
What is National Honesty Day? Write an acrostic poem with words and/or phrases describing the event. http://bit.ly/2ne9yqR

Diamante poem- Rain to Sun http://bit.ly/2o81WLu

A springtime Ballad- Read a Ballad of Dreamland by William Shakespeare and create your own ballad. http://bit.ly/2o34av3

Spring Haiku- Use the nature is spring to form a Haiku

Bulletin Board:
Character Building - I care about the Earth so... http://bit.ly/2mNh7cB

I hope you were able to get some ideas for writing in April! If you would like to have a variety of instructions, templates, and rubrics, click the April bundle below!

Do you want your students writing more? These three ways will get your students writing!







Place a daily prompt on your white board using a projector or smart board. Students should use writing journals to write to the prompt. Supply engaging prompts with a variety of types of writing. This PAPERLESS strategy will free up your time to do administrative duties required when students first arrive in the classroom. For an effective way to begin the day with the students, have them share what they just wrote in their journals!








1. Provide graphic organizers, writing templates, and checklists.
When students have everything they need, they will follow through the writing steps. I like to provide these items together as one stapled packet. This gem is 6-Tier Organizer to separate the different types of writing. Click Here to find it on Amazon. I used return address labels to label each section.



3. At the beginning of the year, provide the materials for paragraph writing and towards the middle of the year, supply them for essay writing.


4. Provide prompts for your writing center. This can be done two ways.
A.  PROMPT CARDS



The prompt cards can be displayed using a Brochure holder. Click Here to find it on Amazon.
B.  ALREADY PRINTED PROMPTS ON WRITING TEMPLATES
Have prompts already listed on the writing templates and numbered with the type of writing in the top right-hand corner. This helps with easy organization. Make them for paragraph writing AND essay writing if you are in upper elementary.








In the writing center or another designated area, place the CARD HOLDER so that the prompts are not showing. If students finish early from an assignment, they can pick from the card holder and write in their journal.

I hope these ideas will help you and your students write more in the classroom!  

Grab this FREE NARRATIVE WRITING PROMPT with Templates!



I offer two different resources for writing prompts. With each resource, the prompts are listed for easy organization. Print the list and cross off any prompt that was already used.

1. The Grade Level prompts include 60 prompts (10 from each type of writing). They are directly written on the pages and each writing template (graphic organizer, rough draft, checklist, final copy, and rubric) is numbered with the type of writing in the upper corner. It aids in your organization. There are different checklists and rubrics for each type of writing. Cards are included.




2. 180 Prompt Cards and White Board Display: All 180 prompts are provided on cards and white board size. In addition, blank templates (graphic organizer, rough draft, checklist, final copy, rubric) are provided for the teacher or student to write the prompt in. There are different checklists and rubrics each type of writing.
Below are the products I found to use with my writing center:

 

At the end of the year, I had students make a video of their interactive writing notebooks.  Rachel's video was my favorite!  She was so thorough!





If you are looking for interactive writing notebooks for Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, click here!

Do you want cute ideas for February to use in your literacy centers?  Although I have all of these items in my store, I am going to explain how to do each of them without a purchase!  If you would rather have the work done for you, there will be links below, but you are welcome to use these ideas in your classroom free of charge!

1.  Groundhog's Day-  Create Your Own Animal Legend Writing-  After talking to your class about groundhog's day, tell them they are now going to create their own legend about another animal!  Use a thinking graphic organizer similar to the one below to help them gather thoughts!


2.  Valentine's Persuasion Writing:  Give the students several prompts to choose from and let them start persuading!  Provide the friendly letter format to guide them in their writing!  Here are some ideas:
      a.  Convince your teacher or parent to choose you for special Valentine.
      b.  Persuade your teacher or parent to allow you to eat candy any time of the day.
      c.  Convince your friends to exercise or eat healthy for strong hearts.
      d.  Persuade your parents to open a candy store.

3.  Chocolate Opinion Writing:  Send them to this site to read an article about chocolate- Is Chocolate Healthy?  Then have your students decide whether or not it is a healthy choice and write an opinion paper.

4.  A Healthy Heart- Informative Writing:    Go the Heart Association's web page and have students read about what type of food and how much exercise children their age should be getting each day.   Have students create a newspaper article highlighting the information.

5.  Chocolate Web Quest:  Create some questions about the history of chocolate and how chocolate is made.  Give students links to answer the questions.  Here are some of the questions I used:
What are the main ingredients in chocolate?  What is a nib?  What happens while beans are roasted?  How many beans in a pod?  Name the 2 tribes that used chocolate as a drink.  Who first made chocolate into a solid form?  Who was the first European to come in contact with the cacao bean?  Who tried to keep chocolate to themselves?   How did chocolate help win the war?  Give them a treat afterwards!

6.  February Quatrain:  Use examples from the anchor chart to teach quatrains.  Then give students a February word bank and have them create quatrains with different rhyming patterns.  If you have rhyming dictionaries, place them in the center as well!



7.  Black History Biopoem:  This is a free item in my store!  There is a QR code to get to a Black History website.  Students choose someone to read about and then fill in the Biopoem template.  Super cute!  Grab it below for free!

8.  Duke Ellington:  This is the perfect time of year to learn about Duke Ellington.  You can read his picture book and read a biography on PBSKids.org/jazz and compare texts!  I like to play his music in the center too!

9.  Sweet Parts of Speech:  Make cards with Valentine's words.  Have students sort them into the different parts of speech and then write them out in their category.  Some examples:




10.  The Day I Was President- Narrative Writing:  Students write about a day they were president.  Start with walking into the Oval Office!  This great to have a craft to go along with it!



11.  Chocolate Grouping:  This is a freebie in my store!  See below.

12.  Cereal Box Biography- Book Report:   Students choose a person to read about.  I like them to read books for this one!  Then they decorate a cereal box.
Front:  Name and illustrate the cereal and person
Back:  Advertise their combination of cereal and person
Side:  Nutritional Facts:  Use bullets and list important dates and events in that person's life
Side:  Ingredients:   What are your similarities and differences to this person.  What would you change if you were in their shoes?
My students like to dress up as their person for this book report!

I hope you got some great ideas for February!  Here are some links if you are interested.

The writing activities are sold separately AND as a bundle.