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Pre-K - 2nd
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Writing Prompts

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Five questions and pictures make up a collection of writing assignments that spark imagination and reinforce creative writing skills. Class members respond to each question based on their observations of each picture. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

prompt writing, making observations, Narrative Writing, narratives, early writing

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Give learners the choice of a prompt to complete 
  • Support language acquisition by adding a verbal component to the worksheet in which pupils tell their tale in addition to writing it 
  • For beginner writers, allow them to dictate their response while you write using a highlihgter, and they trace when finished 

Classroom Considerations

  • The worksheet is the sixth of seven in a series created by The Curriculum Corner
  • Requires copies

Pros

  • Provides dotted lines to support early writers 
  • Writing prompts vary in subject

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.K.3 W.1.3 W.2.3

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