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John Spencer’s Photoprompts
Tumblr has tons of writing prompts accompanied by images. They spark imagination
and encourage various types of writing.

  •  Luke Neff’s Image Writing Prompts are aligned with the common core and have incredible visuals.

  • Make Beliefs Comix has over 350 free printables for teachers. These can easily be shown on a projector and used as writing prompts. They are sorted by topic, event, and holidays. Students can create their own comic with this tool in multiple languages.

  • Create a digital calendar similar to this one with a writing prompt a day. Here’s a post on how to create a digital calendar.  Have students create their own writing prompts and integrate a few throughout the year. You could have them add their prompts to the digital calendar, which frees up your time! Assign each student a day to be in charge of creating a visual prompt. You can give them a rubric or checklist to follow.

  • Write About This
    - a free IOS app with prompts to inspire writing and students can create their own.

  • Journal Jar- free web and phone app that when shaken comes up with a question to write about.

  • PicLits- choose an image and your students drag and drop words onto the image to create a story.

  • Scholastic Story Starters- this is an interactive website where students write their names and fill out questions.

  • Plinky- a question appears and below the question students write their opinion.

  • StoryIt- print out a picture that has the first paragraph of a story.

  • Boggles World Creative Writing- several creative writing prompts to print that were especially designed for English language learners.

  • Five Card Flickr- 5 random pictures from Flickr are posted and students can
    write a story in the space provided or view several other pictures.

  • One Word- This excellent website posts one word and your students
    have 60 seconds to write on the website whatever comes to mind.

  • Writing Fix- hundreds of journal writing prompts, writing games, and more.

  • Lightning Bug- find a story idea or develop one.

  • 100 Word Story- an image is posted and you can submit a story that is only 100 words. This site doesn’t filter so you can use your own images and have the
    students create the stories in class.

  • The Storyteller Blog is full of writing prompts. Some are geared for older students. Here’s a monthly  calendar with various prompts.
  • Several visual prompts on the Teaching Ideas site.

  • Tell About This- Free iPad app for students to respond through their voice to picture prompts.


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