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Are you teaching a high school language arts class and stumped for writing topics? Five pages of writing prompts for all kinds of writing should help you out. Many of these prompts refer to texts that are not included in this resource, but they should be easily found online. While this is a great collection of ideas, this resource does not provide any instructional strategies.

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persuasive language, persuasion, persuasive arguments, essay writing, how-to texts, narratives, nonfiction

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Articles, descriptive, English, essay writing, expository, informative, narrative, nonfiction, persuasive, Response to Literature, Writing Prompts, biographical, definition, how-to, self to text connection, cause and effect, response to nonfiction, secondary writing, language use, ccss.ela-literacy.w.11-12.3, english language arts
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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