Get your students excited for summer (while still learning!) with this fun and flexible Dream Vacation Packing List Activity!

This engaging writing resource invites students to imagine their perfect vacation while practicing list writing, sentence writing, and paragraph writing—all in one differentiated set!

Students will build their skills as they:

Create a packing list for a dream vacation
Illustrate what they would bring
Explain why each item is important
Write a narrative paragraph about their trip
Defend their packing choices using reasoning
With multiple versions included, this activity easily meets students at different levels—making it perfect for differentiation or scaffolding writing instruction.

What’s Included

• Beginner version:
  Write 6–8 items + draw them in a suitcase
  *Intermediate version:
  Write 8–10 items + explain why each is important
• Advanced version:
  Narrative paragraph about a dream vacation
  Defend top 5 packing choices
  *Print-and-go
  *Perfect for end-of-year or summer-themed lessons
• Encourages creativity and imagination