Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing Prompts

This document consists of 24 different writing prompts. Most prompts require students to use a selection of language features and they are encourage to broaden their vocabulary through a list of ‘banned words’. Furthermore, students are encouraged to use the five senses in their descriptive writing.

All activities come with a photograph for inspiration.

Activities include:

• Writing a description of surroundings
• Fiction writing
• Descriptive writing
• Non-fiction writing

This document can be edited to allow teachers to adapt the specific requirements for each prompt e.g. altering the list of language features if necessary.

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Image licence for all images used throughout this resource:
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Free for commercial use
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