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Writing Prompts

Getting students excited about writing can be tough. Whether you want to improve their writing skills, get them thinking more critically and creatively, or simply help them get comfortable expressing themselves on paper, explore our writing prompts created by fellow educators.

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Students explore protest music around the Vietnam War and their meanings....

Students examine technology and write about what it’d be like without it....

Students construct fun ghost story narratives told from the ghost’s perspective....

Students get practice identifying predators and prey and describe them through writing....

Students examine and write an essay about the importance of lab safety....

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