Use online images to spark prewriting
Tag: Writing Prompts
Writing prompt of the day–scary kids. And 200 more prompts.
Emoji Story Starter September 10
Use these for a little boost to your story writing toolbox.
Writing Warmup for July 28–Alien eggs
I could give you a prompt here,
but I think the photo does enough
to get your imagination going…
Feel free to download more prompts from here.
Happy writing!
A fun writing prompt tool
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.
Free Packet of 50 Writing Prompts
Hoping you get a few useful, fun ideas.
Enjoy!
More story starters for writers–May 4
It was as if the artist had read my mind…
Little did the neighbors suspect it would soon come to life…
Buddy had big plans for an appetizer before dinner…
More story starters for writers
The visitor’s arrival was minutes away…
He was seconds from revealing the secret…
Beth decided weightlessness *was* possible…
Story starters for writers
Five new photo prompts for Sail the Seven C’s Teacher Expo…
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:
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humor
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a real person as a character [celebrity? family member? another teacher on staff?]
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a heroic action
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