Coming up with March writing prompts can be tough sometimes. In many areas winter still hasn’t released its grip and spring seems to be nowhere in sight. What’s needed is some inspiration!
Benefits of using march writing prompts
You may feel that by this point in the school year you really don’t need to use writing prompts with your students. They’ve been writing all year long and have a good grasp on coming up with their own ideas.
While that may be true, there are some benefits to using writing prompts throughout the year. You can intersperse them with writing tasks that require them to generate their own ideas and topics. Check out this earlier blog post for a freebie!
This can be a rough time of year for both teachers and students. The excitement of the Christmas holidays are over, and most of the time there isn’t another school break coming up for weeks yet. Even our imaginations can seem dulled.
Three Benefits to think about!
- So one benefit of using writing prompts this time of year is simply to nudge your students into using and challenging their imaginations. Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day can be a fun way to liven things up a bit and instill a little silliness into your school day! Writing about leprechauns and pots of gold can help banish the winter doldrums.
- Another benefit of using writing prompts is that you can focus them on a particular type of writing you want your students to focus on. Perhaps you’ve been doing a lot of descriptive writing lately, or you’ve been focusing on informational text. It always helps to switch gears and do something totally different. Switching things up a bit allows your students to think in different ways and exercise different parts of their brains.
- Students also benefit from using writing prompts because it exposes them to different genres of writing. They can learn to recognize the different writing styles and explore their own preferences. The more types of writing they’re exposed to, the more opportunities they’ll have to practice their writing skills and incorporate their own experiences.
Writing Prompts for the Whole Month of March
If you’d like to try different writing prompts in your classroom to liven things up in March, you may be interested in this resource.
You’ll find 28 different writing prompts, all focused on spring and the month of March. The writing prompts are open-ended and can be used for a daily response journal or more structured and guided journal writing, after class/small group discussion or research.
You’ll also get blank templates and handwriting guidelines if you’d like to write your own prompts. Activities include journal prompts for many fun topics like Mardi Gras and Dr. Seuss, photo prompts, comparison lists, and informational text. The whole month is covered for you … all you have to do is print and go!
If you like this resource, you may also be interested in:
- December Writing Prompts
- January Writing Prompts
- February Writing Prompts
- April Writing Prompts
- Fall Autumn Writing Prompts
- Winter Writing Prompts
- Spring Writing Prompts
- Monthly Writing Prompts
Do you have some ways to make March a bit more fun? Please share!
