ESL Emotional health daily journals

These writing prompts make bell-ringer activities for middle and high school ELA and ESL are ready to be added into your daily routine. These ready to print booklets are easy to use, include evaluation sheets, and integrate planning directly in the writing process.

This resource includes my topics 11-15 which revolve around emotional health reflection and opinion development. These questions are not intended for younger students.

The topics are:

• general emotional health
• happiness
• anger
• pride
• sadness

Examples:

• Why is it important for people to be able to recognise emotions in others?
• Where do you feel happiest? Why?
• What is an action that you can take when your sad to feel better? Why will that help?

Once added to the daily routine, students will easily be able to do their journals with substitute teachers and will no longer await instruction at the beginning of class.

When used as a pre-assessment, these writing prompts define the writing baseline for your students and determine the needs that need to be met in your instruction. It also allows you to be ready if any cheating happens later in the year. This resource is also used as a formative and summative assessment.

In this 143 page pdf document:

• Teacher instructions with pages that can be projected in class for instructional time
• A list of all the writing prompts with a page per prompt that can be projected in class during writing time
• 4 journal pages without questions in each format
• 4 formats of booklets with the questions already on them:
  1. Half-page with no planning spaces
  2. Full page with no planning spaces
  3. Half-page with planning spaces
  4. Full page with planning spaces
• 3 formats of evaluation sheets each with the option of a grade or no grade