'Free Writing' Exercises based on images

‘Free Writing’ is where students write ‘stream of consciousness’ style passages under timed pressure without a chance to pause or worry about planning first. It’s asking them to be creative, impulsive and to take risks.

I have designed this to be a series of 8 tasks done in ‘rounds’ which are clearly marked, however you may want to use them as starters across a few lessons. There is a template for each round if you’d like to use it. Blowing it up to A3 will obviously mean that students would have more space in which to write.

There is an opportunity to peer assess at the end of each round so that students can see what others have done.

All images are copyright free. Of course they can be adapted to suit your students’ needs.