Category: Writing
Emoji Story Starter September 10
Use these for a little boost to your story writing toolbox.
Writing Warmup for July 28–Alien eggs
I could give you a prompt here,
but I think the photo does enough
to get your imagination going…
Feel free to download more prompts from here.
Happy writing!
Word Cloud Writing Warmup
Create stories from the
words and phrases in the word cloud above…
And feel free to download this free set of 200 warmups.
Writing Prompt Idea
Create stories from the
words and phrases in the word cloud above…
A fun writing prompt tool
From byrdseed.com called Emoji Prompts.
The site starts a visitor with an emoji. As I’m writing this, the opening emoji is a beaming face with hearts as eyes.
Ideally, the visitor writes or speaks the beginning of a story based on that emoji.
With a click of the ‘AND THEN’ button, another emoji pops up [in this case, a face with a disapproving tongue-sticking-out expression] and the ad libbed story continues…
Check out the short demo.
Free Packet of 50 Writing Prompts
Hoping you get a few useful, fun ideas.
Enjoy!
An eye-for-details writing activity
I’m working on a writing mini-course, so I’ll be posting some of the activities here, as well.
The activities are intended for a range of writers, though seasoned veterans may not be interested.
Here’s a short video of the world-watching activity.
The Next Page Entry 30: Journal-sharing
Added a new twist to journal time. We go around the room and ask for a favorite sentence they wrote during that session. Kids can pass on the opportunity, but most are anxious to share. Unfortunately, after one annoying incident, I had to add—and require them to copy down—the following guideline:
If I include a living, breathing person in my selected sentence, it must be in a positive way. If it might be embarrassing to that person, I will not read it to the class.
The Next Page Entry 29: Thanks, Mrs. Nix
Thanks, Mrs. Nix, for spurring me to continue to give kids choices in what they want to read.
Seems that the more you insist on the value of what some offshore publisher recommends for my kids, well, that just doesn’t wash with me.
But, to appease leadership, for ten minutes a day, we’ll open the book about tarantulas and the scientists who study them. We’ll break down a page of text for any possible value—vocabulary, favorite phrases, valuable information— and then move on to our other language arts resources, such as, ‘ourselves as writers, ‘ourselves as readers’ and the materials we value. We’ve had some very interesting discussions centered around ‘What I’m reading’ and ‘What I’m writing’.
