Category: Writing Prompts

The Next Page Entry 65: A classroom manifesto…

The Next Page Entry 65: A classroom manifesto…

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I ran across this quote and loved it for the classroom.

So I made this poster.

Kind of lofty goals, yes.

But they give us so much to think about, starting with me.

I have assured the kids we can’t live up to all of these all the time, but if they give us a reason to pause and reflect, then those words are doing their job.

Pretty sure I’ll be using parts of this for journal prompts and classroom discussions as well.

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A fun writing prompt tool

A fun writing prompt tool

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16 emojis

From byrdseed.com called Emoji Prompts.

The site starts a visitor with an emoji. As I’m writing this, the opening emoji is a beaming face with hearts as eyes.

Ideally, the visitor writes or speaks the beginning of a story based on that emoji.

With a click of the ‘AND THEN’ button, another emoji pops up [in this case, a face with a disapproving tongue-sticking-out expression] and the ad libbed story continues…

Check out the short demo.

Five new photo prompts for Sail the Seven C’s Teacher Expo…

Five new photo prompts for Sail the Seven C’s Teacher Expo…

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evening street scene

Below are four more photo prompts I just added to my
Sail the Seven C’s Teacher Expo…

Suggestions for teachers:

1. Let writers team up to author a story.

2. Give writers a separate assessment for their prewriting efforts.

3. Challenge writers to add:

  1. humor

  2. a real person as a character [celebrity? family member? another teacher on staff?]

  3. a heroic action