Daily Writing Prompts - Adaptable for a Year 8-12 English Classroom

These daily writing prompts will not only scaffold your students’ skills and competency in both analytical and creative writing, but they also provide a fun and mark-free environment to build their confidence in writing.

Activities include:

• Revision of ‘English Textual Concepts’ (differentiated slides to suit Year 8, 9/10 and 11/12)

• Mimicking style activities

• Photo of the week writing prompts

• Story cube activities

• Sizzling story strategies

• Pobble 365 story starters

• PCETAL paragraph practice (analytical writing)

• Technique lessons and opportunities to write with them

Each activity is designed as a 5 minute warm up but could be lengthened to suit the needs of your class. In senior classrooms, this can also be utilised to engage those first few minutes while students are making their way to class and some have already arrived.