These are great discussion or quick write prompts.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Janis Meredith
- Date Added:
- 10/24/2022
These are great discussion or quick write prompts.
You can download any of them for free!
Great ideas for creativity, genius hour, design thinking, writing prompts, maker products, video making, divergent thinking.
Use these short and fun prompts to get kids writing!
Responding to a topic
Pobble365 helps to keep students writing. Every day, Pobble365 provides a weird, wonderful, and/or thought provoking image to spark ideas for discussions and writing. It is free and along with a different idea-inspiring image every day, Pobble365 provides a story starter, discussion questions, as well as sentence challenges and “sick sentences” to build language skills. If students don’t have online access, images and writing supports can be printed and photocopied.
The activities include a prompt, sentences stems, vocabulary bank, questions, and challenges to help you scaffold your lesson.
You will need to sign up and make an account to access the resources, but it is free to do so and each day includes a free prompt. You can also create your own!
Get your students writing every single day!
This short video has been designed to serve as a writing prompt. Watch the video in Section 1 once and just enjoy. Then select a writing prompt from Section 2 and rewatch the video to gather (even jot down) ideas. Then write!
An amazing collection of video writing prompts!
Prompts for:
Creative thinking
Informational Text
Narrative/Story
Persuasion
& more!
This site provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks - and some fun anagram vocabulary games.
Generate random story ideas, plots, subjects, scenarios, characters, first lines for stories and more.
"A time capsule is a container filled with items that you can bury in the ground.
Later, archeologists, anthropologists and historians can dig it up and get a snapshot of life at a particular time.
We are living in a historic moment that you want to share with a future generation 100 years from now. For this reason, you will create your own time capsule.
You need to select one item that represents what kids your age are doing for fun when stuck at home."
This resource contains a collection of excellent writing prompts for elementary students. The prompts are specifically listed until Grade 4, but many of these are great prompts that could be used with any age student!