There are now well over 40 pages of writing prompts for kids on the website and I've put most of the links onto this page for the purposes of organization. Please enjoy!
If you're interested in having all the prompts in one place, check out my book 500 Writing Prompts for Kids: First Grade through Fifth Grade.
For first graders, I have added creative writing prompts on the subjects offriends, birthdays, cartoons, vacation, school, recreation, their home town and planes, trains and automobiles. For second graders you can check out prompts about summer, winter, fall, seasons, spring, people, the internet, cell phones and themselves. For third graders here are pages based on video games, reading, science, math, lunch, television and movies, gizmos and gadgets, athletics and lastly one on time and space. For 4th graders I've included prompts pages on the arts, writing, the world, bullying, nature, and some miscellaneous ones located on grab bab #1, grab bag #2 and grab bag #3. Last but not least, our fifth graders with pages on religion, happiness, truth, health, fame, social studies, hard work and two miscellaneous creative writing prompts pages located at grab bag #1 and grab bag #2. And here is a page ofKindergarten writing prompts for the wee ones. You should also give these creative writing activities a shot to keep your students' writing time from becoming boring.
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Use the above prompts or article as inspiration to write a story or other short piece.
