Pick a Pack of Presidents’ Day Prompts!

Do you need prompts for writing for primary-grade students? Do you struggle with how to teach sentence and paragraph formation at the primary level? If so, this resource may be the tool you need to guide your students into becoming writing superstars!

Each worksheet included in this resource provides the student with thought-provoking Presidents’ Day story starters with accompanying visual word banks to reference. Students will form their own stories on the topics and use the writing lines to develop their own quality writing pieces. The resource includes engaging first, and second-grade writing prompts such as:

• If I were President, I would…
• If I met Abraham Lincoln, I would…
• If I met George Washington, I would
• If I lived in the White House, I would
• On Presidents’ Day, I will…

The resource includes 5 writing prompts for first graders covering different aspects of Presidents’ Day. Simply print the sheet you need, and you’re off on the journey to amazing writing samples. 

Differentiate and Scaffold Your Presidents’ Day Activities

We’ve included two versions of each writing prompt worksheet, including one with and without a sentence starter.

In addition to independent student work time, use this worksheet as an activity for:

• Guided writing groups 
• Formative Assessment
• Lesson wrap-up
• Fast finishers 
• Homework assignments

To challenge students needing acceleration, have them extend their writing into a multi-paragraph piece using our Text Planning Template.

For struggling readers and writers, provide sentence frames for students to build their sentences off of. They could also benefit from talking about their writing before beginning and generating additional words or details that they could include.

Download & Print Your Presidents’ Day Writing Prompts

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the writing prompt worksheet PDF or Google Slides resource file.

Additionally, you could project the worksheet onto a screen, work through one prompt as a class, and have your students write their paragraphs in their notebooks.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter collaborator.