Practice writing to narrative and descriptive prompts within a specified time limit. 0501.3.3

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1. All Writing Prompts.com - Writing prompts you can sink your teeth into.
2. Creative Writing Prompts - Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. Put your cursor on any of the 346 numbered prompts to see one.
3. Education World has 180 quotes for you. That's one per school day! Consider using the list of quotations as writing prompts.
4. Imagination Prompt Generator - Click to get a new prompt.
5. Journal Writing Ideas - hundreds of ideas from teachers.net [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Multiple Meaning Words - long list of words to use as writing prompts, students write two sentences for each word using the word as a noun and then as a verb
7. Narrative and Descriptive Writing Prompts - Suggestion for using this site: copy the prompts, paste into a MS Word document to print. That avoids the horrible dark blue background.
8. Narrative Writing Prompts - over 100 ideas are listed at this site
9. Nursery Rhyme Expansion - Nursery Rhymes can be wonderful springboards for all kinds of Language Arts activities. Here is an activity designed to give middle school students practice with the aspects of purpose, voice, and audience in their writing. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
10. Proverbs: Wisdom Tales Without the Plot - Have students choose a familiar proverb and develop a story that can surround and carry that thought. Multicultural proverbs offer interesting insights into the universality of wisdom.
11. Sample Prompts and Anchor Papers - designed for grade 5 [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
12. Story Starters - Here�s a quick writing activity to try every day. First generate a creative story starter. Pick a format: notebook, letter, newspaper, or postcard. Four levels are available: pick 4th-6th
13. Timer to time your students - Click on count down button then set the clock - a resource at Internet4Classrooms
14. Who Could it Be? - lesson plan; practice with identifying and writing specific points of view, sometimes called voice. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
15. Workout Room Writing Prompts - Grades 1-8 [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
16. Write On - links to prompts and presentations available from Jefferson County Schools in Tennessee [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
18. Writing Prompts - Narrative, Persuasive and Expository [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
19. Writing Prompts: Journal Topics - 273 prompts in ten different categories from Can Teach
20. Writing Prompts - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms

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