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Writing Prompts
Item	Description
Acrostic Form: Japan	Use this form to write an acrostic poem about Japan.
Notes: A note to my dad!	Write a note to dad!
Poem Form: Valentine Balloon	Write a poem in the heart-shaped balloon.
Project: The Best Vacation Ever (upper elem/middle)	This 16 page vacation planner is a great project to help students understand the process of planning and organizing a vacation. Whether plans are for a low-budget camping trip in a nearby state park, or a fantastic voyage to a faraway country, students will have fun planning budgets, etc., with this unit.
Story Planner: Country	Use this form to plan a story that takes place in the country you are studying.
Writing Activity: A Trip to Switzerland (elem/upper elem) - cover only	Cover page for a booklet-report about a real or imaginary trip to Switzerland. Writing prompts to go with the cover are available on our member site.
Writing Paper: Literature Connections Journal	[member-created with abctools] These lined pages create a booklet for student to record their daily literature circle entries.
Writing Prompt: Helping	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses helping others.
Writing Prompt: How Does Your Family Cook Turkey (upper elem)	Write the directions for cooking a turkey.
Writing Prompt: How to Make Ice Cream	Fill out your own directions for making ice cream.
Writing Prompt: My wish for peace (elem/upper elem)	Lined paper with the prompt, "My Wish for Peace"
Writing Prompt: New Friend	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses making friends in a new school.
Writing Prompt: Peace (upper elem)	"When I think about peace, I think about..." with an illustration of a dove at the top of the page.
Writing Prompt: Pluto (upper elem)	One of six writing prompts from our member site on Pluto's status as a dwarf planet.
Writing Prompt: Positively Peace (upper elem/middle)	Write positive statements about peace.
Writing Prompt: September 11th	"Did the events of that day change your thoughts about your life? In what ways, if any, did you change?"
Writing Prompt: September 11th Heroes (elem/upper elem)	"There were many heroes during the September 11th tragedy. Write about a hero or a heroic event that made an impression on you."
Writing Prompt: State Similes	Explains what a simile is, gives some examples, and then encourages students to write and illustrate their own similes about their state.
Writing Prompt: The Berated Waitress (elementary, middle school)	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses misdirected anger.
Writing Prompt: Witnessing Peace (upper elem)	Take some time in the next week and write down every peaceful act and every act of kindness you see in the form below.
Writing Prompts: Ellis Island	"Imagine you are in line at Ellis Island. What are some of the things you are thinking about?"... These seven writing prompts (available both with lined and illustrated paper or all on one page for students to answer in their own journals) are a fantastic enhancement to our Ellis Island materials.

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Item	Description
Writing Prompts: My Journal - January (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in January, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - February (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in February, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - March (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in March, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - April (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in April, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - May (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in May, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompt: My Journal - June (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in June, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - July (middle school)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in July, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - August (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in August, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - September (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in September, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - October (middle school)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in October, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - November (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in November, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompts: My Journal - December (middle)	Writing prompts for holidays and other special occasions in December, with narrow lines for writing.
Writing Prompt: Narrative Writing - Dog Show (middle school)	Write what happens at a dog show. Exercise in narrative writing for middle school students.
Writing Prompt: Narrative Writing - New School (middle school)	Writing prompt for imaginative story about moving to a new town.
Writing Prompt: Party (middle school)	Write what you would do to plan a birthday party for $75 or less. Expository writing exercise for intermediate and middle school students.
Writing Prompt: Persuasive Writing - Bus Tour (middle school)	Prompt for persuasive writing on a bus tour.
Writing Prompt: Persuasive Writing - Flag (middle school)	Write a persuasive letter to your principal suggesting you create a flag corps of students to take down the flag at the end of the day.
Writing Prompt: Picture Worth a Thousand (upper elem)	IS a picture worth a thousand words?
Writing Prompt: Presents (middle school)	Lined paper with writing prompt for expository writing about presents.
Writing Prompt: Revenge?	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses whether it's right to get back at a bully.
Writing Prompt: School (middle school)	Lined paper with writing prompt for fiction about school.
Writing Prompt: Stealing	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses petty theft.
Writing Prompt: The Nicest Yard (middle school)	"Tell in detail what you would have to do to have the nicest yard in the neighborhood." Advanced intermediate/middle school level.
Writing Prompt: The Wrong Change (upper elem/middle)	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses honesty when someone makes a mistake in your favor.
Writing Prompt: Volunteers (middle school)	Explain why it is important to be a volunteer. Expository writing exercise for middle school students.
Writing Prompts: 18 Creative Prompts (elem)	Eighteen writing prompts for younger students, with lines for writing. Includes teaching suggestions.
Writing Prompt: Family - My Brother	"An interesting thing about my brother is _." Short single sentence prompts.
Writing Prompt: Family - My Father	"An interesting thing about my father is _." Short single sentence prompts.
Writing Prompt: Family - My Sister	"An interesting thing about my sister is _." Short single sentence prompts.
Writing Prompt: Family - My Mother	"An interesting thing about my mother is _." Short single sentence prompts.
Writing Prompts: Christmas (upper elem/middle)	Get students writing with these thought-provoking prompts.
Worksheets: I Have a Dream (upper/middle/high)	Excerpts from Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech are reviewed in writing prompts, with an emphasis on rhetoric. Adaptable to a range of grades.
Writing Prompts: Ten Pages (middle school)	Expository, persuasive and narrative writing. Ten prompts for middle school or advanced intermediate.
Analytical Writing: Comics (upper elem/middle)	Use this worksheet to develop critical thinking skills by having students categorize comic strips in terms of audience, purpose, and humor.
Comprehension: Fallacies (upper elem/middle)	Five logical errors are presented and explained, then reviewed with comprehension questions and writing prompts.
Writing Prompt: 101 Journal Topics (middle school)	Use this two page list of journal topics as prompts for a daily journal. Students can mark off topics as they complete them.
Writing Prompt: Creativity	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses the conflict between doing what is expected, and doing what is creative.
Writing Prompt: Did She Steal the Money?	Part of the abcteach character-education series, which introduces children to challenging life skills decisions and asks them, "What would you do if this happened to you?" This one addresses suspecting a friend of wrongdoing.
Writing Prompt: Fundraising (middle school)	Expository writing prompt about raising money to help a classmate whose house has burned down.
Writing Prompt: Idea Lives On (upper elem/ middle)	This writing prompt uses a quote from John F. Kennedy as a starting point.
Writing Prompt: Langston Hughes	This writing prompt uses the text of Langston Hughes' poem "Dreams" as a starting point.
Writing Prompt: Money Trees (upper elem/middle school)	"Write an essay about how your life would change if money grew on trees." Lined paper with essay writing prompt.
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