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.
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The Unusual Present: Write An Imaginative Story (And More) (9-13 years)
A creative-writing worksheet that walks students through writing an imaginative short story in three paragraphs, using a provided story starter and structured planning questions.
Narrative Writing Story Starters Beginnings Sizzling Starts
A set of 15 classroom posters, each modeling a different narrative writing technique for crafting an engaging story opening ('sizzling start'), such as action, dialogue, onomatopoeia, descriptive setting, and cliffhangers.
April Weekly Interactive Writing Prompts | Poetry Month Writing Prompt
An editable digital (Google Classroom-compatible) slide deck of weekly creative and reflective writing prompts, organized by week, for students to respond to directly on the slides.
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Daily Journal Pages, Homeschool Worksheets, Writing Activity
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24 Creative Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Students
Google Slideshow of 24 creative writing prompts to inspire student writing across genres and moods, with an elements-of-fiction mini-lesson.
Using Adjectives in Creative Writing Activity
A single-page creative writing prompt asking students to use adjectives to vividly describe a humorous illustrated scene.
Creative Writing Prompt - Create Your Own Monster
A creative-writing prompt that has students invent an original monster character (with a drawing and fact sheet) and then write a graded short story featuring that monster.
Finish the Story: Back to School Writing Prompts
A no-prep creative-writing packet of back to school-themed "finish the story" prompts to build narrative writing skills.
End of the Year Writing Activity
An editable end-of-year writing prompt activity ('It's the end of the year!') for students to reflect on their favorite book, friendships, learning, effort, memories, and goals for next year.
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Expository Writing Prompts
Provide expository writing prompts (scenario + directions) with a built-in scoring rubric to build students' expository/persuasive letter-writing skills.
Narrative Writing Picture Prompts To Inspire Your Students' Stories
A set of 15 picture-based narrative writing prompts to inspire student story writing.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Official Police Report | Creative Writing
Creative-writing activity framing students as a police officer investigating the events at the three bears' house, writing an official police report.
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Introduction to Poetry | Monster Narrative Poetry Challenge
Teach narrative poetry technique (simile, alliteration, rhyme, rhythm) through a creative writing challenge where students invent a monster and write a narrative poem about it, framed as entry to a 'Young Writers' monster poetry competition.
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Literary Devices Creative Writing Prompts
Give middle/high school students short, targeted creative writing exercises that isolate and practice five literary devices (Details, Diction, Imagery, Point of View, and Tone) one at a time, building creative writing skills incrementally.
The Day I Met a Baby Chick - Writing Prompt
A spring-themed, no-prep creative writing prompt asking students to imagine meeting a baby chick, paired with a companion drawing activity.
Writing Activities - Back to School
A set of back-to-school drawing-and-writing prompts to ease students into the school year while practicing writing and creative thinking.
Silly Stories Story Starters
This product is great for helping students learn to write stories. The Silly Stories Story Starters include a character, setting, and plot. This makes it easy for students to create a story. The story starters are also great for sparking creativity.
August Daily Journal Prompts
Daily journal/writing prompt set for the month of August, with a different reflective or creative writing prompt for each date (e.g., favorite food, summer activities, Columbus setting sail on Aug. 3, imaginary spaceship travel, staying cool in the heat).
Imagine You Can Travel Through Space: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing prompt worksheet using a science-fiction space travel scenario, combined with research questions about the solar system and space, culminating in a narrative or diary writing task.
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.
Persuasive Writing Prompts | Writing Prompts by Genre | Idea Starters
Give students independent practice writing persuasive essays/paragraphs by responding to a series of open-ended persuasive writing prompts, after an introductory explanation of what persuasive writing is
January Daily Writing Journal
Build narrative, imaginative, persuasive, and expository writing skills through 20 winter-themed daily journal prompts.
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.