140 Creative Writing Picture Prompts – Journal Writing or Discussion Topics

Description

This set of 140 high-interest prompts with pictures for discussion and writing includes a wide variety of topics and tasks to practice speaking and/or writing skills and also encourage creativity and higher-order thinking.

⭐️ What you’ll get with these picture prompts (Click the PREVIEW link for a closer look!)

• 140 high-interest prompts covering a wide variety of topics and tasks
• Printable option 1: task cards
• Printable option 2 : individual writing prompts on lined paper. Just distribute the prompt and students write their responses.
• Digital option: Fillable Google Slides version for students to type their responses directly on the slide.
• Extra sheets for students to use when their awesome and creative ideas are flowing so much that one page is just not enough! (printable & digital)

These topics will have students expressing their ideas in multiple ways, such as describing, giving opinions, persuading, explaining a process, comparing and contrasting and creating stories or dialogue as well as writing advertisements, letters, news articles, and personal experiences (often from the perspective of another), etc.

⭐️ How to use these prompts: There are topics that will only need a short time to complete the activity, and others will take longer. Use them for bell ringers, brain break activities, group projects, journals, presentations, debates, and more. You will find plenty of uses for these prompts!

Use task cards for group discussion. Give each group one or more task cards to discuss the topic. This is perfect for ESL speaking and conversation practice, or just use as a way for students to brainstorm for ideas before writing their responses. Keep task cards on hand for early finishers to do some creative writing practice.

Individual writing sheets are perfect to distribute for a quick writing activity or bell work. Have students gather all their completed papers and create a booklet with their writing samples.

Use the digital version for homework assignments and to give them keyboarding practice as well. These can also be put into a digital portfolio of all their writing activities.

With these 140 prompts, you are sure to find plenty of topics to spark your students’ interest and get their creative juices flowing!

Perfect for middle school, high school, and adult ESL!