Do you have a Mark Twain in your home? How about a Maya Angelou?
Whatever type of writing talents your children may have, you probably find yourself looking for some inspiration for topics.
The solution?
Writing prompts.
These handy, dandy story starters and journal ideas are the perfect tools for any homeschool. They offer writing ideas that can range from though-provoking questions to silly and impossible situations. They can be serious or they can be fun. Either way, they get children thinking and writing.
Below is a list of sites that offer a variety of writing prompts. Some are suitable for children while others will work well with teens. All will free your family up from that horrible barricade called “writer’s block.”
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Websites with Writing Prompts
Scholastic Story Starters: This is a fun, interactive story starter for children in the elementary grades. Each child selects a theme and grade level. Then he is taken to a page where he spins four wheels that assemble his story starter idea.
Super Teacher Worksheets: This page has a list of 30 journal writing prompts.
Daily Teaching Tools: This site has a list of 180 journal writing prompts, one for each day of the school year.
Enchanted Learning: Here is a collection of writing prompts for short essays.
Can Teach: This Canadian website has a nice assortment of journal topics.
Alex Toys: You’ll find 20 writing prompts for kids on this page.
Journal Buddies: This article has a list of 49 story starters for children.
Kids Play and Create: This is a list of 50 creative writing topics for kids.
Wrighting Words: This is a list of over 100 very creative story starters.
The Teachers Corner: This website offers writing prompts for every month of the year.
Education World: This is a list of “writing bugs” for each month of the school year.
Creative Writing Prompts: This is an interactive page with more than 300 prompts.
Creative Copy Challenge: You’ll find a small collection of short story prompts for teens on this page.
Homeschool With Love: This is a link to a page on my other blog. It has a list of 12 writing prompts about Jesus for the Christian heart. I also have a series of picture writing prompts here.
WriteShop: WriteShop has some really fun writing prompts in different categories plus a free gift here.
If you’re looking for some fun writing prompts covering themes like the wild west, detective stories, space adventures, superhero stories, time travel, and more, you might like the writing prompts I have created here. Kids will love them!
More help on this site for teaching writing:
- Reduce Repetition in Writing with These Thesaurus Apps
- How to Make Your Own Homeschool Writing Curriculum
- How to Teach Writing Without a Curriculum in Your Homeschool
- Where to Get Writing Prompts for Your Homeschool
- Free Resources for Teaching Sentence Writing (In the Membership Area)
- Sites with Free Printable Writing Paper (In the Membership Area)
Many blessings,
Thanks for mentioning my Wrighting Words website and the writing prompts. There are actually 199 prompts for teen writers on the site, many of which have lots of options, making a list of over 450 prompts. I’ve also added 90 new prompts for pre-teen writers. Hope your readers enjoy the writing prompts, along with other resources that I’ve added for teachers and homeschoolers.
Thanks again for the mention!
Heather
Oh, I’m sorry. I misread your opening header. 🙂 I’ve changed the post to reflect the larger number and allow for any future additions.