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Creative Writing Images and Prompts Slideshow

Picture prompts for stories, poems and descriptions fill a Google Slides deck: a raindrop to personify, a box labeled with a name in a new bedroom, a fading imaginary friend and an alien hiding among classmates.
Grades
Grades 6–12, High School, Middle School
File type
Microsoft PowerPoint
Use
Digital activity

Updated Oct 02, 2026

Subject
ELA, Writing
Topic
creative writing, writing prompts
Resource types
Writing Prompts, Worksheets & Printables
Use
Digital activity

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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!!!

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

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Write about one conflict from two characters' points of view
  • Use personification to describe an object or part of nature

Skills covered

  • Descriptive writing — using sensory detail to describe autumn leaves or a path through a forest

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