Writing Prompts

There are countless ideas to inspire writing. First and foremost is reading. Reading is at the core of all other professions, subject areas, and at the heart of being a life-long learner. Without reading, an author, student, teacher, doctor, &etc. is mediocre. One of the most popular authors of our time, Stephen King, attests to this,

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." 

So I encourage you to begin each class period with personal reading time. Without warming up, muscles do not perform. Reading is the warm-up to writing.

Apart from reading there are many things that can ignite ideas. Sometimes it's a smell (i.e. homemade bread or vanilla conjures many feelings and memories for me), sometimes it's an image, sometimes it's a simple phrase or one word that inspires writers to write. Each week I hope to share some prompts (images included) for other teachers to use too!

This is the archive where you'll find them organized by category. Use 'em up and share them with others!

Descriptive Prompts

• Describe how you would tell a friend that he or she has bad breath.

One Word Prompts

• [Dance. Journey. Mysterious. Fear. Rage]
• [Delight. Lost. Confused. Fire. Unwelcome]

Picture Prompts

• Beatles Fans Restrained by Police

Poetry

• Shining in the middle of the night...
• There is no frigate like a book.

Questions

• What is your favorite place to read?
• Cast one longing lingering look behind?
• What is the most serious problem on your school's campus?
• If you had a tail, what would it look like and what would you do with it?

Sentence Starters

• Write me as one that...
• Lonely contemplation led...

Titles

• The time I ran away.
• "Funny Then, Not Now" or Funny Now, Not Then"
• The Day I Was Jack Frost
• The Day I Met My Hero
• The Day We Lost the Championship
• The Day I Was the Teacher
• Melancholy marked him for her own.

Visit my Pinterest board for more ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/rafikeys/prompts/