Writing+Prompts

__PA standards__ –
 * NETS.1.6-8: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * NETS.2.6-8: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
 * NETS.6.6-8: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.

__Objectives__ -
 * 1) Students will demonstrate the ability to use a word processing application on a computer.be able to accomplish everyday tasks associated with creating, formatting and finishing small sized word processing documents/assignments ready for distribution.
 * Entering text into a document
 * Using Save and Save As
 * Working with the Toolbox
 * Create folders in Save As
 * Basic text editing
 * Spelling and grammar check
 * Working with fonts
 * Changing character case
 * Indenting paragraphs
 * 1) Locate and use letters, numbers, and special keys (e.g., arrow keys, space bar, insert Enter/Return, Backspace, Delete) on the keyboard.
 * 2) Use proper keyboarding techniques to improve accuracy and general efficiency in computer operations.
 * 3) Use correct finger placement for home row keys
 * 4) Compose sentences, short paragraphs, and stories.
 * 5) Students will demonstrate the ability to use a word processing application on a computer. (pages)
 * 6) Be able to accomplish everyday tasks associated with creating, formatting and finishing small sized word processing documents/assignments ready for distribution.

__Evidence of best practice__ – students will be able to refer to the video and helpful tips on my wiki at anytime they get stuck, peer instruction

> Make a list of the things another person would say in response to the compliments. > Make a list of the things another person would say in response to the insults. > Describe something very smooth. > Describe something very rough. > * An upside-down town > * A city at the end of a rainbow > * A land at the center of the earth
 * || Writing Prompts || Writing block?? try these ||
 * **5th** || # Finding an undiscovered planet
 * 1) This year, I want to learn…
 * 2) Hiking in the mountains
 * 3) My favorite family tradition
 * 4) My best friend is awesome because…
 * 5) What my family does on the 4th of July
 * 6) A list of things on my desk
 * 7) What America means to me
 * 8) One of my best memories
 * 9) Would I rather be rich or famous? || # Write a diary entry for a famous person in history.
 * 10) Make a character move from one end of the toom to the other. Then, do it again, only make the character take a long time to get there.
 * 11) Write a story from the point of view of someone with a very difficult job.
 * 12) The title is: "the kids on my block."
 * 13) What an awful bully! How will you ever escape his/her clutches!
 * 14) Sometimes people are so silly. Write a "things to do" list for a very silly person.
 * 15) Who did you meet one day on the street?
 * 16) Write from the point of view of a raindrop.
 * 17) Bring nature to life. For example: "the wind is like a girl turning somersaults." "The trees are old men waiting for a bus."
 * 18) Write a diary entry for a famous person in history. ||
 * **4th** || # Time capsules are…
 * 1) Something I’d like to be better at
 * 2) Climbing the world’s largest tower
 * 3) A secret garden
 * 4) Finding a secret room in your house
 * 5) Jumping on clouds
 * 6) Diving undersea to find a hidden temple
 * 7) Becoming a giant
 * 8) Growing up with cousins
 * 9) Taking an escalator to the moon || # Write a diet plan for a hippopotamus.
 * 10) Go outside and look at a tree. Write that tree's life story.
 * 11) Why do leaves fall? Why does snow fall? Why are there rainbows? Write a fantasy story explaining something in nature.
 * 12) Did you ever want to visit a faraway place? Describe how you imagine it would be.
 * 13) What is the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower? From the bottom of Niagara Falls? From the middle of Mount Fuji? Use your imagination to describe a landmark from your own perspective.
 * 14) Write a speech about something you feel is important.
 * 15) Write a note of excuse to your teacher.
 * 16) Write a note of excuse from your teacher.
 * 17) Start at your toes, end at your hair...describe how it feels to be happy.
 * 18) Describe giving a speech at a whole school assembly from the point of view of your stomach. ||
 * **4th** || # Underwater house
 * 1) Having a food fight
 * 2) Being in a video game
 * 3) Race car driver
 * 4) Making a new ice cream flavor
 * 5) Exploring the pyramids
 * 6) Do aliens exist?
 * 7) Living on a farm
 * 8) An epic game of hide and seek
 * 9) Playing a professional sport || # Make a list of 15 questions your parents would answer "no" to.
 * 10) Make a list of 15 questions your parents would answer "yes" to.
 * 11) Make a list of compliments.
 * 1) Make a list of insults.
 * 1) If you were a skywriter, what would you write for everyone to see?
 * 2) Write a script for a puppet show.
 * 3) Write a school song.
 * 4) Write a list of things to remember for an elephant.
 * 5) Choose a brief, interesting article from the newspaper, and rewrite the story from the point of view of somebody involved in the incident. ||
 * **5th** || # Underwater house
 * 1) Having a food fight
 * 2) Being in a video game
 * 3) Race car driver
 * 4) Making a new ice cream flavor
 * 5) Exploring the pyramids
 * 6) Do aliens exist?
 * 7) Living on a farm
 * 8) An epic game of hide and seek
 * 9) Playing a professional sport || # Describe how it feels to dance.
 * 10) Describe your worst fear.
 * 11) Super power for a day! What will it be?
 * 12) Pretend you are a ghost, haunting a house or apartemnt. Describe the people who live there, and how you haunt them.
 * 13) What do you think somebody who just won ten million dollars would be thinking? Would a person change after acquiring so much wealth? Write a story about change due to a loss or gain of money.
 * 14) Write the lesson plan of a very mean teacher.
 * 15) You are the last dinosaur before extinction.
 * 16) Describe something blowing in the wind. What is it?
 * 17) Look down from the ferris wheel.
 * 18) Describe the first time you crossed the street alone. ||
 * **6th** || # Underwater house
 * 1) Having a food fight
 * 2) Being in a video game
 * 3) Race car driver
 * 4) Making a new ice cream flavor
 * 5) Exploring the pyramids
 * 6) Do aliens exist?
 * 7) Living on a farm
 * 8) An epic game of hide and seek
 * 9) Playing a professional sport || # Pretend you are a painter. What will you paint? Why do you choose the colors that you choose? How do you feel as you paint this picture?
 * 10) Red, blue, black, yellow, pink. White, green, brown, purple, orange. What things do you imagine with these colors? Make a coloring book.
 * 11) Some people talk to themselves. What do they say?
 * 12) Write a jump-rope rhyme.
 * 13) Make up ten modern superstitions.
 * 14) Write a horoscope for each sign in the zodiac.
 * 15) Write the rules to a new game.
 * 16) Write a ransom note.
 * 17) Write a pretend advice column. Use your own problems.
 * 18) Write a script for a soap opera. ||
 * **6th** || # Someday, I want to be
 * 1) If I could live in any time in history, I would choose
 * 2) My favorite toy when I was younger
 * 3) What 5 things would I want if I was stranded on a desert island?
 * 4) I felt grown-up, when
 * 5) __Brothers/sisters are important because…__
 * 6) __If I could trade places with anyone for a day__
 * 7) __The best April fool’s joke I ever played__
 * 8) __A perfect day__
 * 9) __My favorite month of the year__ || # If you could say something over the school intercom, what would it be?
 * 10) What is the difference between a person and a robot? Express this difference by imagining you are a robot turning into a person, or a person turning into a robot.
 * 11) Does everybody have something special about them? Pick a character from regular, everyday life and show how special that person can be.
 * 12) Write a story. At the start, make the character very likeable. By the end, make the character a real stinker! (or, vice versa!)
 * 13) Look out of your window. Write your first impression of each passer-by.
 * 14) Who is the funniest person you ever met? Why?
 * 15) Imagine somebody absolutely rich and absolutely famous. Follow that person on his/her heels from the time he/she wakes up to the time he/she goes to bed.
 * 16) Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny---invent someone new.
 * 17) Write about a group of friends. Do they all get along? Are they all from the same background? How are their personalities different, or the same?
 * 18) It was an unforgettable field trip! ||
 * **7th** || # Walking on the ceiling
 * 1) My favorite pair of shoes
 * 2) Finding buried treasure
 * 3) If dinosaurs still existed
 * 4) My greatest talent
 * 5) What if there were only 18 hours in a day?
 * 6) Something that embarrasses me is…
 * 7) The best restaurant I’ve ever been to
 * 8) I like living in [city], because…
 * 9) The most important thing I ever learned || # Write a fable, with a moral at the end.
 * 10) Write how somebody very scared would sound over the telephone.
 * 11) Write a poem from the point of view of a musical instrument.
 * 12) There is a conversation going on between the librarian and someone very, very loud.
 * 13) Somebody is whispering a secret in your ear.
 * 14) The peasant is having a conversation with the queen.
 * 15) Pretend you are sorry. Write an apology. What are you sorry about?
 * 16) Write a conversation between a brother and a sister, or a sister and a sister, or a brother and a brother.
 * 17) How does it feel to fly?
 * 18) Write words to a song for someone who feels left out. ||
 * **7th** || # If I was the principal, I would _
 * 1) Can wishes come true?
 * 2) People who I couldn’t live without
 * 3) My favorite thing in my bedroom
 * 4) A list of states or countries I’ve been to
 * 5) What would grow in my garden?
 * 6) A day in the life of a superhero
 * 7) Rules are important because…
 * 8) If i was a color, i would be ___
 * 9) My favorite thing about myself || # Do not write "I was surprised," but make it clear to the reader that you were surprised. What was the big surprise?
 * 10) What would a liar say?
 * 11) How do things look when you're confused?
 * 12) Write something using exclamation points as your only punctuation.
 * 13) Write a poem about being tickled.
 * 14) Look through the eyes of a fish.
 * 15) Describe somebody blowing a very big bubble.
 * 16) Go to a public place such as a library, restaurant, park or bus. Pick someone you've never met before as a subject, and describe that person.
 * 17) Look up from the dentist's chair.
 * 18) Imagine your family at a party. Describe what you see. ||
 * **8th** || # I think tests are important/unimportant because…
 * 1) Staying home alone[[image:http://journalbuddies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/star.png width="60" height="51" caption="Journal Prompts for Kids"]]
 * 2) The best teacher I ever had || # Sit at the kitchen table, choose three foods to eat. Describe how each one tastes.
 * 3) Write a crazy //T.V. Guide//!
 * 4) Look in a mirror. Write everything you see.
 * 5) Hey, you were a baby once! Look up from your crib.
 * 6) What would it be like to be in jail?
 * 7) Describe the school of your dreams!
 * 8) Write a dictionary for words in any subject area you choose: math, sports, dance, rocks, cooking, travel...
 * 9) Write an advertisement for a new invention.
 * 10) What makes a person ugly? Describe a very ugly person.
 * 11) What makes a person beautiful? Describe a very beautiful person. ||
 * **8th** ||  || # Hold something in your hand. Compare it to other things. Make a list, "this thing is like..."
 * 1) The title is, "I'm someplace I do not want to be."
 * 2) A martian has come to visit. Desribe this planet, Earthling ambassador!
 * 3) Describe a room in your home.
 * 4) Describe your neighborhood on a summer evening.
 * 5) Make it happen again! Describe a memory you have.
 * 6) Write a script for the master of ceremonies of a funny fashion show.
 * 7) Write a pamphlet about how to give a theme party. Include an invitation, menu and party games.
 * 8) Describe something very sharp.
 * 1) You are a stray cat in the park. Describe things through a cat's eyes. ||
 * **8th** ||  || # Describe somebody you admire.
 * 1) Title: "The Greatest Garbage Story Ever Told."
 * 2) Title: "Jealousy in the Jungle."
 * 3) The time machine works! What adventure is ahead?
 * 4) Title: "The Difficult Choice."
 * 5) It was a case of mistaken identity!
 * 6) Sneaky, sneaky! Write a mischievous plan.
 * 7) Write about any of the following: * A town at the bottom of the sea
 * 1) Spend the day as a balloon.
 * 2) Grownups can be so unfair! Describe an incident in which you were treated unfairly because of your age. ||
 * L ||  || # Something mysterious has happened to your whole class! Only you can change things back to the way they were.
 * 1) Run away and join the circus.
 * 2) How did you ever end up on the moon? How will you ever get back to Earth?
 * 3) Write a romance between an unusual pair of lovers.
 * 4) Pretend you are one hundred years old and write a timeline of your life's highlights.
 * 5) You have just met a fortune teller. What does he/she tell you? Does it come true?
 * 6) Write a story about being on your own in the city or the countryside.
 * 7) It was a great money-making scheme!
 * 8) Tell a story about a pet you own, or imagine an incident with a pet you would like to own.
 * 9) Describe a walk down the street from the point of view of a ninety-year-old person. ||
 * M ||  || # Write a cumulative story, like "The House that Jack Built."
 * 1) Write and illustrate a comic strip.
 * 2) Write a story about a big contest.
 * 3) Write a story about how two lonely people meet.
 * 4) Change a fairy tale around your way!
 * 5) Review three restaurants.
 * 6) Have a conversation with an angel.
 * 7) Outsmart a devil in your own trickster tale.
 * 8) Make up interview questions for a teacher, a movie star, a president, a neighbor...then, seek answers!
 * 9) Make a list of things to say to a person who is having an awful day.
 * 10) Pretend you are a basketball. Write a story about being in a basketball game. ||
 * ||  || older students might also like... ||
 * N ||  || # Write a will.
 * 1) Write a love letter.
 * 2) Write a letter to the child you might have in the future.
 * 3) Some people are unusual. Make up an unusual person. What unusual thing happens to this unusual person?
 * 4) Write down the thoughts of a crazy person.
 * 5) Sometimes people say things that you remember all your life. Write down such a conversation.
 * 6) Write a goodbye conversation.
 * 7) Listen to other people's conversations. Write down what you hear, word for word. ||
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