Pictures & imagined scenes
Adventure Visual Writing Prompts | Photo Ideas | Writing Project
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
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Speech bubbles
Creative Dialogue Writing Prompts Worksheets.
A set of dialogue-writing prompt worksheets that give students a scenario and ask them to write out a full dialogue between characters with proper punctuation and descriptive tags.
Daily & creative writing
Journal Prompts for Daily Writing
A large collection of draw-and-write daily journal prompt pages for a writing station, each giving students a short topic to illustrate and write about.
Personal experiencesPlanning a narrative
Storyteller's Wordshop - True Life Stories & Me and My World
A two-part personal-narrative writing journal (combining 'True Life Stories' and 'Me and My World') that prompts students to write and illustrate short personal stories using story starters, brainstorming questions, and vocabulary space.
Story craft & viewpoint
Flash Fiction: 24 Creative Writing Prompts for Students
Choose from 24 prompt slides and write a very short story (no more than 1000 words, up to 3 characters, one setting, one conflict, one or two rising actions, and a resolution) within a timed writing session; optionally share stories in small groups for feedback.
Characters, settings & story starters
Fun Writing Activities: Creative Writing Prompts
Generate creative writing prompts by having students roll a die to randomly select a character, setting, and problem for a story.
Setting & sensory details
The Extraordinary Cupcake: Lots Of Writing Tasks To Complete (9-13 years)
A creative-writing task pack that uses a fantasy narrative (shrinking into a cupcake and discovering an underwater/mermaid world) as a model text, paired with vocabulary building and multiple guided writing prompts for ages 9-13.
Speech bubblesStory dialogue
8 Picture Writing Prompts & Lesson Plan: Setting, Characters, & Dialog
View photo prompts (settings) and write creative/narrative pieces incorporating setting, characters, and dialogue, guided by lesson slides.
Daily & creative writing
Creative Journal Prompts for Daily Writing Fun.
A set of daily journal-writing prompt worksheets covering general, seasonal, and imaginative topics to build writing fluency and self-reflection.
Personal experiencesPlanning a narrative
Personal Narrative Writing, Graphic Organizer, Rubric & Examples
Guide students through a personal narrative using graphic organizers and examples, then assess the finished writing with the included rubric.
Picture & drawing prompts
The Unusual Present: Write An Imaginative Story (And More) (9-13 years)
Read a provided story opening (about receiving an unusual pair of trainers/shoes with hidden powers), write paragraph 3 using guiding questions, then plan and write an original three-paragraph imaginative story (fantasy, crime, or adventure genre) using paragraph-by-paragraph planning questions.
Pictures & imagined scenes
Writing Project: Magical Visual Writing Prompts - Photo Ideas
A set of magic/fantasy-themed visual writing prompts (photo cards with guiding questions) plus matching writing template pages, used to spark creative, descriptive, or expository student writing.
Speech bubblesConversation templates
Comic Strip Activity
Cut out the provided comic panel and speech-bubble pieces; arrange and glue them onto the final page to create a comic strip about something funny that happened to them, adding dialogue via the speech bubbles.
Personal experiencesPlanning a narrative
Personal Narrative: Writers' Workshop (Based on Lucy Caulkins
Guide a multi-session Writer's Workshop teaching students to plan, draft, and write personal narratives about special people/moments in their lives, modeled on the Lucy Calkins Writer's Workshop approach
Fantasy & adventure
Creative Writing Prompt - Create Your Own Monster
Draw their monster and fill in a 'facts about my monster' sheet (name, age, type, favorite food, hobbies, fears, pet, personality traits, life motto), then individually or with a partner write a story (minimum one page) meeting listed requirements (monster as main character, a line of dialogue, an example each of direct and indirect…
Characters, settings & story starters
Narrative Writing Picture Prompts To Inspire Your Students' Stories
A set of 15 picture-based narrative writing prompts to inspire student story writing.
Setting & sensory details
The Setting Sets the Mood: Teaching Students How to Write an Effective Setting
25-slide slideshow lesson teaching middle/high school students how to write descriptive story settings using sensory imagery to establish mood.
Story dialogue
Creative Writing Workshop: Dialogue Mini Lesson
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students how to write and punctuate dialogue effectively in narrative writing, using a slideshow, a topic-strip speaking activity, and a punctuation practice worksheet with answer key.
Writing skills & mixed prompts
Daily Writing Prompt Cards
A set of 32 daily writing prompt cards to give students a ready supply of creative-writing topics, for use as a writing station, journal starter, or early-finisher activity.
Personal experiencesPlanning a narrative
A Student's Guide to Writing a Personal Narrative
Walk a student step by step through writing a personal narrative, from brainstorming through drafting, revising, and a final editing checklist.
Editable
Story craft & viewpoint
Creative Narratives Writing Prompt Bundle
For each of 12 prompt cards, write an original short story using the given characters, setting, and plot hook; use the do's/don'ts writing-hacks sheet and proofreading checklist (capital letters, punctuation, adjectives, spelling, sense-making) to plan and revise.
Setting & sensory details
Descriptive Writing Prompts | Writing Prompts by Genre | Idea Starters
A packet of print-and-hand-out descriptive writing prompts, each posing a scenario and follow-up questions to spark independent creative writing.
Conversation templates
Skype Template (Editable on Google Slides)
Fill in editable text boxes on iPhone/Android chat, contact-list and video-chat layouts to write a conversation (e.g. between novel characters, a historical figure, or friends/family), then save as an image or print and complete by hand.
Editable
Daily & creative writing
Year Long Weekly Writing Prompt Journal
A year-long weekly writing journal that gives students recurring writing prompts across five categories (argumentative, narrative, explanatory, current events/critical thinking) to build writing skills over a school year.
Editable