25 Prompts for Narrative and Descriptive Writing

The following 25 prompts worked wonderfully in my language arts classes. These prompts will provide narrative and descriptive writing opportunities.

For instance, there is a prompt in this packet that requires students to think about a typical Saturday and recount sequential events descriptively.

Another prompt will require students to describe a perfect lunch, which will require them to think critically and logically in a creative passage.

There are several possibilities here, but the real bonus is the full-color image that accompanies each question to inspire deeper thinking and colourful language choices.

I have alternated prompts in this packet to allow for daily or weekly instruction possibilities. Thus, each narrative prompt is followed by a descriptive writing prompt.

Why? In my classroom, I passed this assignment out as a classroom packet and one that we would use throughout the school year so students could track progress and see how they had developed as writers from the first day to the last.

Please let me know how you use these prompts in your classroom.