1st Day of School Activities for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade Students + Bonus 15 Writing Prompts to Kick off the School Year— August has arrived, which means that it’s time to start preparing for the back-to-school season. As you buy the new decorations for your classroom and create the themes for this year’s […]
Prompts by Grade
31 High School Writing Prompts for 9th Graders
Freshman year of high school is all about new beginnings, new responsibilities, and new challenges. And whether your students are excited or apprehensive about the coming year, one thing is for sure—they are at an important crossroads, and the path they choose will have major ramifications on the rest of their lives. That’s a big […]
Prompts by Grade Level
Journal Prompts and Writing Ideas by Grade Level (K-12)— Whether your students have written one journal entry or 100 journal entries, the practice of daily writing can have a positive impact on their lives. Journaling helps students to improve their writing skills and their critical thinking, as they take a topic and explore it from multiple […]
30 Creative Journal Prompts for Elementary Kids
Creative Journal Prompts for Elementary School Students— Introducing journaling to students at a young age can have a major impact on their comfort level with writing and their creativity throughout the rest of their lives. Kids who practice journaling on a regular basis are better at writing and communicating their thoughts—and they also build important critical […]
30 Good Ideas for Short Stories for Middle Schoolers
In order to better understand the literature that they will study in high school and throughout college, middle school students need to have a strong understanding of the elements of a story as well as character development. Instead of making your class all about the reading materials and the discussion questions that are posed afterwards, […]
30 New Fiction Writing Ideas (Middle School)
Fiction Writing Ideas for Middle Schoolers— Though most students begin writing their own short stories from a very early age, there’s something particularly special about the fictional works that kids compose in middle school. Tweens and young teens occupy a unique space in their writing that younger and older students sometimes struggle to reach—they can […]