Monthly writing prompts, like these May writing prompts, are a highly effective way to engage your students and motivate them to practice their writing skills. This May journal prompts resource includes topics that are relevant to what students are experiencing in real time, so they are interested in exploring the topic and writing about it. Learn more about our May writing prompts resource for elementary students below!
What is the May Writing Prompts Resource?
This May journal writing prompts resource includes 10 different genres of writing: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing. That means there are tons of May writing ideas to choose from! It offers fun and engaging writing activities for the month of May that will motivate your students to practice their writing skills and inspire a love of writing. It’s part of our monthly writing prompts bundle. Learn about what’s included in our May journal prompts resource and why elementary teachers love it below!
What is Included in this May Writing Resource?
Below is a list of all of the resources included in this May writing journal prompts resource.
Writing Journal Cover and Table of Contents
This May writing prompt resource includes 4 cover options so you can choose which one fits you and your students’ needs best. In addition, it includes table of contents printables for students to use to organize their many pieces of writing.
Thematic Paper
The resource includes 6 versions of thematic writing paper, so you can differentiate based on your students’ needs.
Lists of Writing Prompts
This resource has a list of prompts for the following writing genres: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing prompts. Having these lists will ensure your students engage with lots of different types of writing throughout the month. Plus students love these May writing ideas!
Assessment Tools
This May writing journal resource includes tons of assessment tools. First, it includes a rubric that helps make expectations clear to students and makes grading quick and easy for you. Second, it includes a self-assessment activity that helps you guide students through reflecting on the experience. Third, there is a feedback form to help you identify student strengths, set goals for each student, and develop future lessons.
Digital Versions of the Resources
There are digital versions of all the resources so students can access them in school and at home. This also gives elementary teachers the flexibility to assign the May journal prompts as a pencil and paper assignment or to utilize the technology students have access to.
Why Teachers Love These May Journal Prompts
Below are 5 reasons elementary teachers love this May writing journal prompts resource.
- This May writing activities resource documents students’ writing abilities, which makes it great for including in writing portfolios and sharing with families during parent-teacher conferences.
- It’s a print and go resource, which saves you lots of time planning and prepping.
- It is a great fast finisher task that students can work on whenever they have some free time.
- This May journal prompts resource includes a rubric for students, so it makes it easy for students to understand the criteria for quality writing.
- It comes in digital and printable formats so students can access the resources in class and at home.
12 Ways Teachers Use These May Writing Prompts
Elementary teachers use these May writing activities in all of the ways listed below.
- writing projects
- whole group lessons
- literacy centers
- writing centers
- sub plans
- morning work
- homework
- fast finisher activities
- filler tasks
- assessments
- evidence for report cards
- work samples for parent-teacher conferences
May Journal Prompts Resources
The May journal writing prompts resource is part of our monthly writing prompts bundle. Grab the May set of journal prompts or scoop up the year-long bundle!
In closing, we hope you found this post about our May writing prompts helpful! If you did, then you may also be interested in these other posts about teaching writing:
