Daily Writing Prompts Booklet 1 - For ESL Beginners

This PDF document contains 5 short writing templates for beginner English students learning to write their own short compositions. I made these for my 3rd grade EFL students, who are able to read simple storybooks and can spell 1st and 2nd grade sight words, but struggle with writing in complete sentences, and are complete beginners to writing passages. I briefly explain the writing topic for the day, which we discuss orally, then I write any difficult to spell vocabulary words up on the board according to what we discuss orally. I can then allow the students to get on with writing their passage themselves.

The topics include:

• Who are you? (Introducing oneself and a friend)
• What colour is it? (The apple is red…)
• How many are there? (There is/are … in the classroom.)
• What can we do? (I can/can’t… You can/can’t…)
• Our Favourite Food (I like/don’t like… He/She likes/doesn’t like…)

For more Daily Writing Prompts visit:

• Booklet 2 - [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/daily-writing-prompts-booklet-2-for-esl-beginners-12599157]
• Booklet 3 - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/daily-writing-prompts-booklet-3-simple-outlines-for-elementary-english-learners-12599169

This is the first booklet we used, with many more to come. The topics get progressively more difficult, allowing students to practice different vocabulary and sentence structures, with more and more freedom to compose what they want to express independently.

Document is 3 A4 pages, which can be cut in half to make a 5 page A5 booklet with a cover page.

I am making more of these to use with my class at the moment, so if you enjoy the product, please leave a review and let me know which topics you’d like to cover in the next upload!