24 Creative Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Students

Are you out of ideas to get your students writing? Or do you need to add to your tool chest of writing prompts? This slideshow, 24 Creative Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Students is the solution! This resource provides 24 creative writing prompts to inspire student writing! These slides are perfect for short writing lessons or creative writing. Your students will enjoy writing to these prompts.

The writing prompts focus on:

• developing characters, settings, conflicts, and mood;

• using personification, sensory imagery, and descriptive details; 

• writing stories, poems, monologues, or scenes;

• writing mysteries, realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and poetry; 

Although the writing prompts are numbered, they can be used in any order.  There are two sets that come with directions followed by a slide of pictures.  They are labeled slide 1 of 2 and slide 2 of 2.

You will get a "Must Haves" and "Can Haves" graphic organizer to discuss elements of a story with your students. There are also slides to discuss dialogue and how to use quotation marks.

Prompts included:

-Personification

-A Leap of Faith

-Name on a Box

-The Path Up Ahead

-Vampire, Sunrise, Flat Tire

-Using Photographs of People

-Volcano

--Sensory Descriptions and Emotions/Feelings

--Point of View and Conflict

--Using Photographs to write a story or monologue

-& so much more!!!

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If you have any questions, please email me at gruenwaldy1@gmail.com

1 PowerPoint with 33 ready-to-display slides