writing prompts

These are some of the daily writing prompts I use in class.

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know.

Other stuff I'm working on is over here.

If you really like these writing prompts and feel monetarily inspired by them, you could buy a book for my classroom. The students will thank you.

If you're a teacher, and you really like them, I have a few sets of Common Core aligned prompts for sale over here.

DFTBA.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which really just means that you shouldn't make money off these, but please use them in your classrooms (or wherever it is that you like to do writing) as much as you'd like.

#684

explain it to a duck

I have to give a HUGE thanks to the nice people at the Clear Eyes, Full Shelves blog. One of their reviewers (and one of my favorite substitute teachers) brought my class a great stack of books (and a few from our classroom wish list). So, not only does that blog have an awesome title (a great Friday Night Lights reference) and premise (they use a ranking system for books based around Friday Night Lights characters), but the people that run it also happen to be awesome. Thanks!

Camera: iPhone 5
Aperture: f/2.4
Exposure: 1/20th
Focal Length: 4mm

#683

evil baby orphanage

#682
minimalist pictograms: story version & history version
@rogre had a great suggestion: check out The Noun Project for icons to use in your very own minimalist pictograms

#682

minimalist pictograms: story version & history version

@rogre had a great suggestion: check out The Noun Project for icons to use in your very own minimalist pictograms

#681

bizarre & ominous retelling

#680

high school advice

This is amazing. Seriously, amazing. I can’t believe how many books have shown up from our classroom wish list. A huge thank you to all those who got us a book.

As I’ve said before, my students are so incredibly fortunate. Again and again, I am so impressed and grateful that people I’ve never met are buying books for our classroom. It has been awesome to walk around the room and see students absorbed in great books that you got for them.

Jennifer Savage-Wright, thank you.

Emily Rich, thank you.

Ryan & Amy Hammock, thank you.

Adam Beard, thank you.

To the Knights of Rhetoric at Flagler College, wow and thank you.

To those people who sent us a book that showed up without a piece of paper saying who you are: thank you, and please say something soon, so we can thank you.

#679

emotional mapping

[a link to the full map]

#678

#677

Lionel Messi is to Dr. Who as __________ is to Amelia Pond.

[This one is from a huge set of prompts that I’m hoping to get up on Teachers Pay Teachers in the next few days.]