Holiday Writing Ideas for the ELA Classroom

Holiday Writing Ideas

Holiday writing ideas are the topic of the guest blog post I had the opportunity to share on the Teach Writing blog.

Read on this blog post about how I increase student engagement during the November and December holiday season by using these six writing strategies.

Integrate Creative Writing
Write About A Specific Holiday
Try Writing Prompts as Bell Ringers
Use the RAFT Format
Try Choice Boards
Write a Prequel or Sequel

Many more details can be about these engaging writing ideas on the Teach Writing blog post mentioned above.

Visit the Teach Writing blog to read about student writing engagement during the holiday season.

Complete Christmas Unit

If you are looking for a complete middle school Christmas Unit which includes 6 different lessons to keep your students actively engaged in reading, writing, speaking and media literacy during the holiday season check out this Christmas Unit.

This engaging Christmas Unit contains 6 different activities that will help reinforce your students’ reading and writing skills. Students will learn about the historical background of Christmas traditions and prepare for a holiday-themed discussion about current Christmas customs. *This resource is focused on the North American commercial Christmas – this is not a religious unit.

This resource contains individual PDFs of student pages to assist with online learning i.e. Google Classroom™. The unit also comes with Google Slides™ versions of the included graphic organizers for 1:1 technology schools.

Unit Overview:

Lesson 1: History of Christmas Video & Readings
Lesson 2: Real or Fake Christmas Trees: Which One Should You Choose?
Lesson 3: Christmas Opinion Questions
Lesson 4: Christmas Opinion Fishbowl Discussion & Paragraph Assignment
Lesson 5: Christmas Food Traditions From Around the World Video + Graphic Organizer
Lesson 6: Christmas Creative Writing Assignment *Christmas Creative Writing Assignment can be purchased separately here.

Unit Includes:

Individual PDFs of student pages for uploading to Google Classroom or other LMS systems
Detailed unit plan and teacher instructions
Lessons divided up with title pages for easy access
Assessment rubrics (Levels and Points)
Answer keys for lessons

Resource Notes:

*Regular reliable internet access is required for this unit

*Internet must be able to access online video sources

*This resource is a non-editable PDF

These Christmas lessons are available for purchase here.