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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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Help students describe people, places and objects with precise words and sensory details. Choose picture prompts, setting work or practical writing activities that develop a vivid description.
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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.
Pictures & imagined scenes
Historical Visual Writing Prompts | Photo Ideas | Writing Project
Use black-and-white archival-style photographs as open-ended visual writing prompts to inspire descriptive, narrative, or caption 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.
Setting & sensory details
Waking up the Joys of Writing - Activity Book
A creative-writing activity book that gives students ten 'flat' (bare, low-detail) sentences and has them rewrite each one repeatedly over a five-day cycle, adding detail and changing tone/mood, to build comfort and fluency with descriptive writing.
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FREE Figurative Language Practice Activity
Give students hands-on practice writing similes, metaphors, and hyperbole through a food-tasting descriptive-writing activity.
Pictures & imagined scenes
Animal Visual Writing Prompts | Photo Ideas | Writing Project
A set of photo-based visual writing prompts using animal photographs to inspire open-ended creative, descriptive, or expository student writing.
Pictures & imagined scenes
Digital Art & Creative Writing Activity: Build a Burger
Digital art and creative writing activity where students design a burger and write a persuasive/descriptive advertisement-style paragraph about it.
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Pictures & imagined scenes
Directed Drawing and Creative Writing Prompts (12 Arctic Animals)
Combine directed step-by-step drawing practice with creative writing prompts for 12 arctic animals, to build drawing/illustration skills alongside descriptive or narrative writing.
Characters & objects
Rock Pet Writing Activity
A cross-curricular writing and art activity where students document, describe, and invent a biography for a 'pet rock' they have created.
Characters & objects
Creative Writing Characters Activity
A character-creation worksheet for a creative writing/story project, prompting students to draw and describe an original story character and assign personality traits.
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.
Setting & sensory details
The Present: Write A Description (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing tutorial teaching students aged 9-13 to write a descriptive narrative about receiving and opening a present, using sensory detail and figurative language.
Pictures & imagined scenes
Directed Drawing and Creative Writing Prompts (12 Birds)
Combine directed step-by-step drawing practice with creative writing prompts for 12 birds, to build drawing/illustration skills alongside descriptive or narrative writing.
Writing skills & mixed prompts
Informative Writing Step-by-Step (310 May Writing Prompts)
Teach the informative-writing process (research/brainstorming, main points and support, introduction and conclusion, draft/edit/revise, final draft) through a May-themed set of topic cards and differentiated writing prompts.
Characters & objects
‘Pom Pom At The Vet’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary, sequencing, and creative-writing activity set at a veterinary clinic, including a simple money/addition exercise using a mock invoice.
Characters & objects
Phoenix Activity
A short creative-writing activity connected to mythology, using the phoenix as a prompt for descriptive and poetic writing.
Setting & sensory details
Winter Writing Prompts: Sno-Wonderful
Teach the four major writing genres (Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, Expository) to upper elementary/middle school and special education students through winter-themed writing tasks, posters, and task cards, including the full writing process from pre-writing through final draft.
Characters & objects
Three Little Pigs | Paparazzi News | Creative Writing
A creative writing activity in which students imagine themselves as paparazzi who spotted the Wolf and the Pig, and record descriptive details about the sighting.
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Pirates Literacy and Math Activity Packet and Worksheets
A no-prep pirate-themed activity packet combining literacy activities (informational reading, vocabulary, creative writing, a leveled short story with comprehension response) with pirate-themed puzzles and coloring, differentiated for Grades 1-3; seller also states math activities are included but these were not reached in the opened evidence.
Writing skills & mixed prompts
Pumpkin Creative Writing Booklet - Fall Reading & Writing Activity
Engage students in a creative writing project where they author and illustrate their own pumpkin story, while teaching descriptive/interesting word choice.
Writing skills & mixed prompts
2025 January ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for January 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
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Writing skills & mixed prompts
2025 March ELA Bell Ringers
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for March 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms, spring/Women's History Month-themed.
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Fox in Socks Writing Activity – Dr. Seuss Week
A set of Fox in Socks (Dr. Seuss) themed writing/drawing prompts for early-elementary students, connected to Read Across America Week.