FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: The North Star: Writing Activity
Be inspired to write your own simple story or poem by choosing a picture from this collection of child-centered illustrations.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Manners
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a writing prompt. Students will write about the topic as a means of reflecting on their manners.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Encyclopedia Entries
After studying encyclopedia entries for structure and writing style, create unlikely encyclopedia articles for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the writing prompt generator button to get a few ideas. Do your...
TES Global
Tes: Daily Dazzle E
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a writing warm-up activity for students. Rectangles with key words present direction prompts
Can Teach
Can Teach: Writing Prompts and Journal Topics
This site has hundreds of writing prompts/journal topics to get students started writing. Topics like "what is" and "what if" will get students thinking about what they could write.
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Writing Prompts: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Family Stories
These images are intended to give students ideas for writing about their families by exploring the details of the art works.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Feedback
These images promise to give your students writing ideas. Use these to spark ideas for discussions, writing, and thinking.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: David Wiesner
All of these images are from illustrator David Wiesner. These images are for use as writing prompts.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Leo Lionni
These images from illustrator Leo Lionni can be used as writing prompts for students.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: I Know Here
Enjoy this collection of images that invite us to reflect upon the important places in our lives. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal sense of place in the world using these images to spark their...
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Text to Self Connections
Enjoy with your students this collection of images that invite them to make personal connections. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal connections using these images, a nice scaffold for later connections...
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Personal Memories
These images can be used as writing prompts to encourage students to write about personal memories.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Robert Burleigh
Images from illustrator Robert Burleigh for use with students as writing prompts.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Summarizing
A collection of images to serve as writing prompts for students.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: List
These writing prompt images are from children's book illustrator Todd Parr. Let his whimsical art inspire your young writers, as they connect to his universal themes of childhood.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Bilingual
These images of people communicating promise to give your students writing ideas. Use these to spark ideas for conversation and for writing.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Character Development
A collection of images for students to use as writing prompts as they work on character development.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Write Now! America Weighs
Video clip displays someone on a scale weighing themselves and asks students to write about what public schools should do, if anything, about the growing obesity problem in America. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! A Picture Is Worth
A video clip asks students to explain how X-ray images communicate information. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Testing
Let students write in response to these narrative images. You can also engage them in discussions about what is interesting in each picture or how the characters feel.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Storytelling
A collection of images of people listening to and telling stories give your writers ideas. These paintings and illustrations point to the universal nature of telling and listening.
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Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Rhyme
These images and writing prompts are to spark writing ideas in your young writers.