Free download WRITING PROMPT | Your pet can talk!
One creative writing prompt asking students to imagine their pet can talk and write a short story about the adventure that follows.
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Story Starters
These Story Starters are perfect for helping students write or tell stories. With a character, setting, and plot card, they can create a fun and unique story. This is a great way to encourage creativity and imagination in your students.
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.
24 Additional Creative Writing Prompts to inspire Your Students
Google Slideshow of creative writing prompts (second in a series) to inspire student writing, with mini-lessons on story elements and dialogue.
"If Kids Ruled the World" Discussion Prompt Pack
A landing/cover page directing purchasers to an external, editable Google Slides deck of discussion and writing prompts (per its own description, 100+ prompts with images to spark nonfiction writing, personal narratives, class discussions, or journal entries).
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14 Random Writing Prompts: Character, Situation, Prop, Setting, Phrase
A Google Slides-based set of 14 creative-writing prompts, each combining a character, situation, prop, setting, and phrase, to inspire short stories and flash fiction across genres (realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery).
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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.
Back to School - First Day of School - "What are they talking about?"
A creative-writing worksheet where students invent or recall dialogue between people in a first-day-of-school image, to be used as source material for a short skit/mini play.
Timed Writing Practice for High School English
Provides 50 quote-based writing prompts (one per slide) for high-school students to practice quick/timed journal or essay-style writing and build writing stamina.
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The Space Age Trainers: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative-writing worksheet teaching narrative story planning (introduction/middle/ending), using a mentor short story about a boy whose new bag is stolen by bullies as the model text.
Story Generator: 10,000,000 Combinations (Google Sheets)
A digital 'roll a story' creative writing tool built in Google Sheets that randomly generates a character, plot, and setting combination (10 million possible combinations) to prompt student story writing.
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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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Free download ALL ABOUT ME | 11 PAGES | ADVANCED LEVEL
An open-ended self-reflection journal/writing-prompt packet ('Advanced Level') covering personal identity, favorites, family/home life, personality, dreams and future goals, friendships, school life, imagination, and emotions.
The Adventures of Captain Planet Jr - Writing Prompt
A two-part creative writing and drawing prompt in which students invent an original eco-hero character ('Captain Planet Jr.') and write about an adventure saving the Earth, then draw the character in action.
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.
"Loser" Mentor Text Study • Writing in second person POV
A lesson using passages from Jerry Spinelli's novel 'Loser' and Jamaica Kincaid's short story 'Girl' as mentor texts to teach students how to write in second-person point of view
Narrative Writing Prompts | Writing Prompts by Genre | Idea Starters
Provides printable narrative writing prompts to give students story ideas and practice writing a story with a sequence of events.
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.
‘Pom Pom At The Obedience Class’: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (4 years +)
A vocabulary and creative-writing activity set at a dog obedience class, contrasting a well-behaved dog with several other dogs (including a repeatedly 'naughty dog') across a set of training exercises.
Daily Journal Pages, Homeschool Worksheets, Writing Activity
Forever June Digital Design ARE YOU A TEACHER OR PARENT WHO WOULD LIKE TO IMPLEMENT A DAILY JOURNAL IN KIDS LIVES? Introducing a very cute set of Instant Download Journal Pages. My Daily Journal Worksheet Set includes simple to complete worksheets that allow children to journal about the weather, season, month, day, time, how they are…
Art Fun Add It! Drawing and Writing Prompts
Build creative drawing and writing skills through themed 'Add It!' prompts that ask students to draw a list of specific items into one scene, then write about it.
An Introduction to 6 Word Stories | Getting to Know You Activity
A creative-writing activity introducing students to the 'six word story' format as a getting-to-know-you and theme-identification exercise, with a scoring rubric.
Free download FREE Figurative Language Practice Activity
Give students hands-on practice writing similes, metaphors, and hyperbole through a food-tasting descriptive-writing activity.
The Art Gallery: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing resource that teaches fiction-writing craft (audience, genre, structure, sentence variety, suspense-building) through direct instruction, a model short story ('The Art Gallery') about a boy who has an eerie encounter with a painting, and a guided prompt to write a follow-up story.