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Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about students' views on their bedrooms and designing a dream bedroom, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A one-page nonfiction reading passage about social media use among young people, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false questions and one or more opinion/argumentative essay writing prompts, for ESL/EFL reading and writing practice.
Free download Ten St. Patrick's Day-themed writing prompts to prompt short student writing responses.
A one-page nonfiction reading passage about Netflix and its popularity among teens, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false questions and one or more opinion/argumentative essay writing prompts, for ESL/EFL reading and writing practice.
A short creative-writing worksheet that has students read excerpted quotes from MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech and then write their own vision/dream for the nation's future.
Ever wonder what your students would tell their future selves in a year? This prompt gives them the chance to write a letter to their future selves, full of advice, dreams, and maybe a little humor (because let’s face it, they’ll probably…
Free download Ten Christmas-themed creative writing prompts to prompt short student writing responses.
A differentiated writing prompt activity for the 100th day of school built around the sentence starter 'If I live to be 100, ___'.
The rainy-spring-day question leaves the adventure open for students to invent. Discuss a setting and an action before writing, then use the companion drawing page to show the same scene. Students who need an idea can begin with a sketch and describe it orally before composing their response.
Free download Set of writing prompts intended to support and reinforce children's creative story writing.
Provide daily ELA 'bell ringer' warm-up activities for April covering grammar correction, vocabulary usage, descriptive/creative writing, reflection, and poetry analysis.
A month's worth of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up writing prompts for June 2025, for middle and high school ELA classrooms, summer-themed.
A quarter's worth (April, May, June 2025) of daily ELA "bell ringer" warm-up prompts covering grammar, creative writing, vocabulary, and literary/poetry analysis for middle and high school ELA classrooms.
A creative-writing packet for emerging writers using 4th of July themed pictures with empty speech bubbles to prompt imaginative dialogue writing.
A set of character-profile prompt cards (with brief character bios and a linked story-idea hook) intended to spark creative short-story writing focused on character development.
Inspire creativity and patriotic reflection with these 4th of July Writing & Drawing Prompts! Designed for students in the elementary grade level, this product combines writing skills with creative exploration with engaging Independence…
Title: 5 Fun Days to Write about in October Description: Welcome the colorful hues of autumn with an engaging twist on writing tasks.
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.
Provide 90 daily writing prompts to spark student creative writing over an extended period (e.g., a semester).
What’s going on inside Punxsutawney Phil’s head on his big day? Well, now your students get to imagine it! A Groundhog’s Diary: The Big Day writing prompt gives students the chance to write a hilarious diary entry from Phil’s point of view…
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.
A short creative-writing prompt in which students respond, in letter form, to a fictional letter from an alien asking about life on Earth.
Provide open-ended visual/photo writing prompts (animal photos) to inspire creative descriptive or narrative student writing.
Thirteen sentence-starter prompts, including 'I am,' 'I was born to,' 'I fear,' 'I am inspired by,' and 'I will,' guide students through writing a personal identity poem in this two-slide editable PowerPoint template. The first slide presents the blank prompts with fill-in lines for students to complete, while the second slide repeats the same thirteen prompts with a parenthetical explanation beside each one, such as clarifying that 'I fear' should name 'a challenge, uncertainty, or thing you struggle with,' to help students understand what kind of response each line expects. Because the template is fully editable in PowerPoint, a teacher could adjust the prompt wording or format before assigning it, or students could complete it digitally rather than by hand. The structure moves students from open self-reflection prompts toward a complete personal poem covering identity, values, fears, and future goals.