Welcome to the Junior Author Day Portal!
Keep scrolling to access all your Junior Author Day resources.
Today is a day to share the magic and power of writing together. The Junior Author Day Portal offers many fun resources, games, books, and activities to explore on Junior Author Day and beyond!
Today’s prompt is:
You wake up to discover you have a magical power. What is your power and how can you use it to change the world? Tell the story of your world-changing power.
Getting Started
Start your Junior Author Day experience by watching these three videos. You can play these videos directly for your students on Junior Author Day, or you can watch them and adjust the content to best fit your group of students.
1. Dive Into Today’s Prompt
2. Let’s Get Writing
3. Illustrating Your Story (coming soon)
My Story Writing Book
Print out this My Story Writing Book to distribute to your students on Junior Author Day. They can write, decorate, and illustrate in this special book. Feel free to print out additional copies if students need more space for writing or drawing.
Printable Resources
Print these resources to decorate your space and share with your students.
Paper Choices
Print these additional writing pages to help students expand their ideas and experiment with different genres.
ABC Cards
Print and cut out these ABC cards to help students build alphabet awareness and sound/letter correspondence.
Classroom Banner
Print this decorative banner to hang in your classroom, decorate your door, or drape from a table.
Paper Puppets
These puppets can be printed and used to act out stories. This template includes instructions for using the puppets.
Brag Bracelets
Distribute these confidence-boosting bracelets to your students. Encourage them to trade/gift with each other.
ABC Chart
Print and display this ABC chart to help students with sounds and letters as they write their stories.
Junior Author Award
Print and display this ABC chart to help students with sounds and letters as they write their stories.
Printable Decodable Model Writing Books
In honor of this special day, we are gifting you these three decodable books from our PALS Town series that serve as model texts for writing. Pam Allyn and her team have written these books with the Science of Reading principles to help your students not only read well, but write well, too.
Games and Writing Fun
These games get students thinking creatively! Feel free to play them on or before Junior Author Day to get all your students excited for writing.
Writing Characters With Heart
Experience the art of character development one step at a time
Book Reporter
Learn how to report on a book like a TV news reporter!
Famzine
Learn how to make your very own zine using paper and scissors
100 Years In The Future
Get students thinking and writing about what school might be like in the future
Continue the Story
Walk through how to build stories together off of one word
Coming Soon!