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Scratching your head when it comes to engaging writing prompts? Check out a list of prompts designed for middle school classes, which includes topics for persuasive writing, expository writing, how-to essays, personal narratives, and responses to literature and nonfiction text.
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Instructional Ideas
- Use the prompts as warm-up writing activities
- Encourage your class to keep a journal, in which they can write about the specified prompt or a topic of their choice for homework
- After your class finished a set of prompts, have them choose their favorite one and develop the short answer into a full essay
Classroom Considerations
- Four of the prompts require specific texts for learners to respond to in their writing, but with a few modifications you could make them more relevant to the fiction and nonfiction texts in your curriculum
Pros
- Provides 31 writing prompts, which should get you through several weeks of instruction
- Each prompt is versatile and applicable to learners of all reading levels
Cons
- None