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Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Write Now!: If at First You Don't Succeed?
This video prompt asks students to write about something that they have worked at in order to become successful and what obstacles they had to overcome. [0:38]
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Jefferson County Schools: Print a Prompt
Check out this resourceful site featuring "Print a prompt." Students can choose from several different titles and prompts and they are provided with a printed copy.
New York Times
New York Times: Picture Prompts: Over 140 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student
The New York Times provides 140 pictures that will prompt student's creative written expression.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Creative Activities
Channel your creativity with these writing activities.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about the prompt. This will help refine your understanding of the prompt.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Analyzing the Culminating Task
Prepare to write by analyzing the culminating task for the Teen Brain unit.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Answer Questions From Articles
Answer questions about the information in articles to deepen your understanding of the teenage brain. Review your response to the text-specific question to evaluate the information in your sources.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Character Development
Students respond to a prompt by writing about how the development of a character can affect the narrative.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Posing Questions
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about a prompt. This will help you refine our understanding of the prompt.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Shared and Interactive Writing
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet the standards for reading and prepare for writing about texts by refining their writing and language skills. In early elementary, the writing that is produced can...
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Pbs Learning Media: The Red Dynasty
Why is the person pictured in the portrait important? Please identify him and explain.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Game
After watching this brief interchange over a chessboard, please write what you think the dialogue is for the two players.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hard Cash
"Hard Cash" shows coins being sorted and asks the students to describe what metals are used in making coins and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Laughing
A video from Write Now providing a unique writing prompt about laughter.
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Pbs Learning Media: New War
How does war, with today's technology, differ from the wars in the past where soldiers fought another face-to-face?
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Pbs Learning Media: Priorities
This clip asks students to think about what their most valuable way is to spend their free time.
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Pbs Learning Media: Stupid or Smart?
This video clip highlights several dangerous hobbies/past times and asks students to explain if they would do any of these and why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Pbs Learning Media: Traveling
Is it more important to know where you are going or where you have been?
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Pbs Learning Media: Just for You
Students are asked to explain how plants and animals may be classified as natural resources.
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Pbs Learning Media: What a Pest
Students are asked to identify issues related to integrated pest management and how they affect the environment.