Writing prompts for kids help students:
- Express themselves and their creativity
- Grasp lifelong literacy skills and concepts
- Tell their own stories and build self-confidence
- Develop a growth mindset when it comes to their writing skills
- Writing is like a muscle — it takes practice to build up skills. Luckily, we put together a list of over 200 writing prompts to help your students get started.

Contents include:
- Creative writing prompts
- Fun writing prompts
- Persuasive writing prompts
- Social emotional learning journal prompts
- Math writing prompts

"Getting to know the students in your classroom can be tricky. It can be even tougher to connect when you’re teaching online. Despite the challenge, it’s more important than ever to find ways to check in and strengthen your relationship. Not sure where to begin? Here’s a list of 50 questions to ask elementary kids throughout the year."

(This article says the prompts are for elementary students, but they will really work for any age, adults included).

"'Tis the season for fun writing prompts! Because we all know getting students to write can be a challenge! So why not summon the inspiration of ugly Christmas sweaters, snowmen, and Santa's elves? These 18 holiday-themed prompts will engage your writers all season long!"

With these activities from the popular NoRedInk, students write a short, low-stakes response to a prompt. The activities invite students to reflect on a challenging year.

The "School Year in Review" quick writes include: (10–20 minutes each)
- A School Year Like No Other
- Persuade for Your Grade
- Summer Writing
- Thank You Speech
- Much, much more!

While you're there, check out all of the other features NoRedInk has to offer!

Here's a way to use ChatGPT to help students grow confidence in their writing!

🛠️ How it works: Take a writing prompt and generate three responses from ChatGPT (or another AI assistant). Students pick the best parts from those responses and assemble their final version, commenting on the writer's decisions they made. Students reflect on their writing decisions with draggable arrows.

☝️ Why this works: It's a scaffolding technique. It gives students practice making decisions as a writer without having to write all of the words.

Use a downloadable PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.

For more information on ChatGPT, head over to https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai.

This fun resource had YouTube videos that encourage students to writing about fun things and topics like a mystery box, shrinking down, a ninja school, invent a new class, etc. Be sure to watch the next three videos after the first one for more writing prompts!

Sample writing prompts are included. Sign up for emails from John Spencer to get 100 free prompts emailed right to you. (He's great, you won't regret it!)

The following is a list of creative writing ideas and prompts for high school students.

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!

-PD
-Playlists
-Writing Prompts
-Maker and Design Ideas
-Best Practices
& More!

A large colelctional of journal topics, story starters, reading log forms, and resources for teaching writing

Newsela provides high-interest, printable news articles from a wide range of subject areas. Teachers can adjust the reading level of news articles to meet the needs of students. Within each article, power words are identified. Students can click on these and see the definition in student-friendly language. Newsela also provides writing prompts and questions about the articles. You can sign up for free access to the end of the 2019-20 school year. Although the site is American, there are lots of applicable news stories that align with Saskatchewan curricula and context.

Keep your writing skills sharp with daily practice. Take the challenge to write for at least 15 minutes every day!

No Red Ink is an online site that helps students specifically with grammar. It gives quizzes and exercises tailored to that students’ interests (sports, celebrities, etc) and offers a number of different differentiated platforms and games.

You have to sign up to use this for your students. Some features are locked for paid accounts, but that being said, there are a number of excellent activities for free as well!

Students complete a diagnostic test, do the practice and then write an assessment.

*grammar
*writing prompts
*skill building
*reading response
*bell ringers
*exit tickets
*fluency
*persuasion
*informational texts
*novel activities

This site provides the materials needed to support the provincial writing assessment.

Attached Files Include:
Eligible Students for Writing Data Collection
Writing Continuum 1-12
Writing Rubrics
Writing At Grade Level
FAQs for the Writing Outcome
Prompts Gr 1 - 12 with Context
Copyright Permission Form

If you have problems accessing this site contact stans@gov.sk.ca or 1-866-933-8333.

ind all the rubrics for assessment, the writing continuum, Writing prompts & FAQs about these resources in this file.

This site generates 274,400 story starters for kids to give them lots of opportunities to write!