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Procedures Place » Story Map. Story Arts | Story Arts Online! A 6-Trait Writing Lesson inspired by The Twits by Roald Dahl. Step one (reviewing showing versus telling by creating a writer's notebook page): Remind your students of the difference between showing and telling. Here is an example of each to review with your writers: The wind was cold. (telling sentences have linking verbs followed by an adjective) The icy wind whipped across my skin, making goose bumps appear. (showing sentences use action verbs to demonstrate the adjectives from the telling sentence) Send students home with this writer's notebook task: "At your home tonight, wander around and find three telling sentences that you can bring back to class tomorrow; one sentence needs to have a person as its subject, one sentence needs to have a place or location as it subject, and the final sentence needs to have a thing as its subject.

When I created a writer's notebook page for this task, I looked around my home. When my students came back to class with their three sentences, I showed them the completed page in my writer's notebook. Creative Writing Journal Prompts. 1. Imagine you had a hundred dollars, but you couldn't keep it.

You had to give it away to a person or charity. Who would you give it to? What would you want them to do with it? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. See also: Writing Prompts This page has printable writing prompt worksheets. Persuasive Writing Prompts Check out our collection of persuasive writing topics. Writing Story Pictures Write a creative stories to describe what's happening in these pictures. Creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers. Pictures and Images as Writing Prompts. Can anyone think of a better way to start a new week than with a lovely picture writing prompts? I sure do love these type of writing prompts, they are quite possibly my favorites, because a picture can sometimes tell us so much more than words could.

Words get misunderstood, but pictures cannot lie. Anyway, the idea with this kind of creative writing exercises is that you are given a picture to look at, which should inspire you to write a short story, poem or piece of flash fiction based on what you see in it, and what you can imagine is going on beyond the edges of it. The picture writing prompt: The instructions: Let the image above absorb you and let it tell you a story. Stay creative! Other creative writing picture prompts: Picture Prompts: Pictures That Tell a Story Picture Prompts: The Stairs to Somewhere Picture Prompts: The Door To Somewhere Picture Prompts: The World Beyond the Edge Picture Prompts: Something’s in the Air Picture Prompts: The Big House Picture Prompts: Wooden Bridge. Images as Writing Prompts. Writing Prompts.