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My Little Pony Make Your Mark I Can Read!

The HarperCollins I Can Read! My Little Pony book series features pony characters from the Hasbro my little pony franchise. These books have been a big hit in my house because my children love the fifth generation of My Little Pony from the Netflix show Make Your Mark. How Accessible is The Language in the My Little Pony Books? The books are rated at level 1 and 2 of the I Can Read! series. I thought that this rating was too low because there are some difficult words to decode and I would have placed them all at level two or three. The names of places are on the longer side like Equestria but the children were already familiar with these from watching the TV show.  The biggest accessibility issue with these books are the "pony puns". Several equine word plays are used. For example, instead of everybody, anybody, nobody and somebody the books use everypony, anypony, nopony, somepony. The maritime area is called maretime bay, the 5 main ponies are called the mane 5. For emergen...
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Daily Journal Prompts to Build English Skills and Writing Habits

Daily ESL Diary Prompts. Try One Line A Day, Every Day This Month.

Writing one line of English a day is a great way to improve your English skills, build vocabulary and increase your English output. Try these easy English journal prompts for ESL students. There is one question for every day in January? Can you answer just one short English question for every day of the month?


Simple English Questions To Kick Start Your New Bullet Journal 

Let's start January 2025 with an English line a day journal or a beautifully organised English bullet Journal. Share your creations with @livelylanguageseigo on Instagram with the hashtag #LLElineaday

These English present tense questions and prompts are simple and repetitive in structure to build confidence while introducing useful vocabulary and common sentence structures. 


31 Get To Know Me Journal Prompts

1. What is your name? 

2. How old are you?

3. What colour do you like?

4. What is your favourite food?

5. How many people live in your house?

6. Do you have a pet?

7. What do you like to do in the evening?


Increase Your English in 2025 With A Daily Diary Habit

8. What is your favourite object?

9. What is your favourite season?

10. What is your favourite animal?

11. What is your favourite TV (Netflix) show?

12. What do you like to eat for breakfast?

13. What is your favourite fruit?

14. What is your favourite game?


More New Year Writing Prompts For English Practice

15. What do you do every morning?

16. What do you eat for lunch?

17. What is the weather like today?

18. What can you see outside your window?

19. What is your teacher's name?

20. What do you do every night?

21. Where do you like to play?


Achieve Your Language Learning Goals By Writing An English Diary

22. What do you like to do in your free time?

23. What makes you happy?

24. What is your favourite place?

25. What three adjectives best describe you?

26. What time do you go to bed?

27. What's your favourite sport?

28. What makes you angry?

29. What is your favourite way to eat eggs? boiled, fried?

30. What is your favourite book?

31. What is your favourite movie?


Start Small By Answering One English Question A Day

Kick off your New Year with a fresh approach to English journaling and make 2025 the year you achieve your English language goals. These daily English journaling questions are perfect for beginners or anyone setting a New Year's Resolution to learn English. 

You Don't Need To Buy Any Special Journalling Supplies

As a Japanese stationery lover, I do find a nice new notebook to be motivating but the most important thing is to get started and you can use any pen and paper to start right now. Whether you’re using a diary, bullet journal or a line-a-day tracker these prompts are designed to help you build a sustainable writing habit. By dedicating just a few minutes each day to writing in English you’ll expand your vocabulary, improve sentence structure and gain confidence in expressing yourself in English.

How To Build A Sustainable English Writing Habit

Share your progress with @livelylanguageseigo on Instagram and join the #LLElineaday community for inspiration and encouragement. Make this your most productive and creative year yet.

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