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Writing Prompts for Elementary, Middle and High Schools WritingWriting Prompts for Elementary, Middle and High Schools Writing
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
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3rd - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Writing Prompts
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Writing Prompts for Elementary, Middle and High Schools

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Work on descriptive, narrative, persuasive, and expository writing with 110 prompts! The writing prompts are organized by type of writing. Several are separated into collections for younger students so you can find prompts for your fourth graders or your tenth graders.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Build units and teach the writing process with these prompts as guides
  • Pick and choose a few to use as daily starter or freewrite prompts

Classroom Considerations

Originally designed to help students prepare for state writing assessments, these prompts could easily be used for many purposes

Pros

  • Comes with enough prompts to keep you supplied for years of variety in your writing assignment

Cons

  • None

Common Core

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