Back to school is the perfect time to build confidence in young writers! My August Writing Journal Prompts packet is filled with engaging prompts that help children in Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 express themselves through pictures, lists, stories, and more.
These simple prompts are ideal for beginner writers or students who need extra support getting started. They encourage children to draw, label, list, explain, describe, and imagine while developing strong writing habits.
To download some free sample pages from the August Writing Journal Prompts packet, click here or on the image below.
What’s Included in the August Writing Journal Packet?
This 46-page printable packet includes a wide range of journal prompts in various formats:
🎨 Draw and Label Prompts
Children draw and label everyday school-related items. These prompts are perfect for early writers learning to connect pictures with words.
Included prompts:
- Person template
- Things you will need for school
- What you would like to have inside your lunchbox
📝 List Writing
List-style writing helps children organize their thoughts while developing handwriting fluency.
Included prompts:
- My favorite things
- Toppings for the best pizza
- Things I like about school
🧑🍳 How-To / Procedural Writing
These how-to prompts guide students in writing steps for everyday tasks. Each comes in two versions—one with pictures and one blank for drawing.
Included prompts:
- How to Make Jelly Toast
- How to Start the School Day
- How to Pack a Lunch
✍️ Writing Prompts with Pictures
These simple prompts are paired with pictures and sentence starters to help children expand their writing ideas.
Included prompts:
- My favorite color
- My favorite food
- My favorite fruit
- My favorite animal
- For breakfast
- I like to…
- I am good at…
- The weather today
- At school I will need…
- Going back to school makes me feel…
💬 Opinion Writing with Pictured Choices
Students choose between two illustrated options and explain their choice using early opinion writing skills.
Included prompts:
- I would rather (read books or watch movies) all day because…
- I would rather drink (milk or juice) because…
- I would rather travel to school (in a hot air balloon or by airplane) because…
🗣️ Opinion Writing II
Open-ended opinion prompts allow children to express thoughts and justify their answers with “because” statements.
Included prompts:
- I am a nice person because…
- When I am alone, I like to… because
- The thing I like most about my new teacher is… because
📖 Narrative Writing
Children use sentence starters and images to tell short stories or describe experiences.
Included prompts:
- Describing my family
- Write a sentence to match the picture (girl feeding birds at the park)
- Write a story to match the picture (boy flying with a bunch of balloons)
- Write a story to match the picture (family at the airport during summer)
✨ Narrative Writing II
These imaginative prompts help children expand their storytelling skills and explore creative thinking.
Included prompts:
- Something that makes me smile
- I am sad when…
- If I had a magic school chair
- If I found a treasure map hidden in my classroom
- If I could be any book character
✒️ Acrostic Poem
Children write an acrostic poem using the word August, connecting vocabulary to seasonal themes.
📝 Simile Poem
This poetry prompt helps children explore figurative language by writing similes about their first day of school.
💌 Letter Writing to Your Teacher
A letter-writing activity where children introduce themselves to their teacher. A great way to connect personally at the start of the school year.
Purchase the August Writing Journal Prompts
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