Gratitude Journal - Thankful Writing Prompts & Activities for SEL Skills

Encourage an attitude of gratitude with these 75 writing prompts! Showing gratitude and appreciation is an important social-emotional skill that helps build happiness, serves as a meaningful coping strategy, and creates a more positive community. Use these no-prep pages to strengthen the skills your learners need for success.

75 No-Prep Gratitude Journal Pages

Every page focuses on a new and different way to practice gratitude. With a total of 75 no-prep gratitude journal writing pages, there are plenty of ways to help your students find what they are thankful for in their lives.

Integrating Social-Emotional Skills into Writing

Every page integrates writing and social-emotional skills. Besides gratitude, others skills integrated into this journal include self-love, coping strategies, positive self-talk, friendships, and more!

Extra Supports

Many of the pages provide suggestions to provide an extra layer of support to those who may need help finding something to be grateful for. For example, when asking students to identify what qualities of a friend they are grateful for, options include: helpful, caring, funny, adventurous, and more. Students can use any of these options or come up with their own. This provides extra background knowledge and vocabulary support to students in need.

How to Use

This journal is a no-prep strategy to integrate gratitude on a daily basis. Using it is simple! Just print the pages and allow students to complete one page a day.

A few strategies to use include:

• Use one page per day to start your morning meeting.
• Keep in a calm-down area.
• Provide as an intervention for students who need extra support managing emotions and focusing on the positive.
• Use for early finishers.
• Send home for homework to integrate writing and SEL.
• Use during Thanksgiving time to create an "attitude of gratitude."
• Use for morning work to integrate writing and SEL skills.

Sample Gratitude Activities

Here are a few sample activities students will be completing. Please see the preview for more!

• Be grateful for today! What is something you are grateful for today? It can be something small or big. Use the ideas or come up with your own. Draw what you are grateful for. Then, explain what it means to you.
• Think about the positive qualities you possess. What is one quality you feel grateful to have? Use the ideas or come up with your own. Draw and write your answer.
• Think of something you are grateful for that starts with the letter S. Use any of the examples below or come up with your own! Draw a picture and tell why you are grateful for it.

Color and Black/White

Note that both color and black/white journals are included! A student cover page and a welcome page to introduce gratitude are included as well.

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