November Writing Prompts for Kindergarten and a Freebie

I love using themed monthly writing and these November Writing Prompts are a no prep, highly engaging resource to use in your kindergarten or first grade classroom. They cover a variety for different skill levels, concepts and writing genres and can be easily used during your writing period to make it a little more exciting or left for a sub.  

They begin with simple picture labeling or a "write the room" activity. This is the perfect way to introduce your students to both fall and Thanksgiving themed vocabulary.   

If you reuse these pictures with sight words, they can also be used as a hands on sentence building center activity.  As a teacher, you can extend this activity by having your students copy the sentence that they created and then illustrating it. 

As students progress with their writing or may need extra support in identifying what a complete sentence looks like, students can practice copying sentences that are already created.  Each sentence also contains a picture to make the sentence something they can easily read.  

Students can also create their own sentences with a sentence starter and a word bank for them to pick from and then illustrate a picture to match their sentence.  This helps students to build more confidence as writers.

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This is another great way to focus on important kindergarten early writing skills like leaving spaces and using end punctuation as well as illustrating their own picture to match.

In addition, included are Thanksgiving and fall themed picture picture writing prompts, both with pictures labeled and with no labels. 

Using the labeled version gives students confidence to write, instead of worrying about "how do I spell..." Or if students are working out stretching out their words, then the version without labels is perfect for your learners.  These are a fun way to get your students to use their imagination and write about a picture. 

Also included is themed opinion writing that is perfect for students to begin opinion writing and to help introduce students to another genre of writing.  

Lastly, sequence writing is included with pictures.  This is a great way to introduce students to using transition words in writing as well as writing more than one sentence about a topic.  

Overall, this resource includes more has over 60 pages of print and go writing activities that can be used for the whole month of November.  

You can find these November Writing Prompts  here:

Or can find a sample freebie of this resource here 

Supporting Beginning Writers Using Labeled Picture Prompts

Writing has always been one of my favorite content areas to teach.  I love seeing my students progress throughout the year. Often they will begin in August only being able to draw pictures and by May, they are writing beautiful stories.  We usually focus on writing personal narratives, but this year I noticed that students were writing the same topic, with the same stories and the same sentences, day after day.  They felt comfortable with the stories they were able to successfully write but were not being challenged or taking risks with their writing.  

I created labeled picture writing prompts for these writers.  They are still writing stories but are able to write about different topics that are interesting to them.  The labeled pictures gave them confidence to take risks in their writing and use new vocabulary.  

Students are able to use the words in their word bank so they aren't afraid of spelling words wrong. 

They are then able to use a rubric with their stories to check sentence conventions.  

There are 4 rubrics per page for easy copying. They are very student friendly.  (This rubric is included as a freebie at the end of the post)

Included in the packet are 50 different writing picture prompts.  Each is included with both labeled pictures for students who need more confidence and support in their writing and unlabeled pictures for more proficient writers

 (This St. Patrick's Day writing prompts is included as a freebie below)
Included in the packet are variety of different topics included ranging from every day stories, to fantasy and even includes writing prompts for holidays:

You can check out this packet in my TPT store by clicking the link below

 Labeled Picture Writing Prompts

Or you can grab a freebie and the rubric here:

Labeled Picture Writing Prompt Sample

I hope that you and your students enjoy using these!

I would love to hear the strategies that you use to encourage and support your beginning writers!