Practice Writing Prompts

To become a good writer, you'll need to practise, practise, practise.  If you're short on ideas, use our prompts to get started.  

• Write an Ode to your favourite food.
• Write a poem from the point of view of an item in your home.
• Write a Haiku that describes your feelings today.  What's a haiku? A three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. 

Review

• Choose your favourite book or film and write a review convincing other people why it’s great.
• Think of one of your least favourite books or films and write a review explaining why it is not so great.

Opinion Piece

• What would be the best Superpower to have? Explain your answer.
• Should schools have uniforms? Why or why not?
• Which are better? Dogs or cats? Explain why.

Newspaper Article

• Your house was robbed! Write an article describing what happened including a headline and a statement from the Police.
• You won an award! Write an article describing what the award was for and what happened at the award ceremony. Include a headline and a quote from yourself.

Creative Writing

• What would be your best holiday ever? Where would you go and what would you do?
• Write a story starting with: “No one ever visited the big house at the end of the street. I should not have done it either.”
• Start a story with: “It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.”
• Choose one of the pictures below and write a story about the scene:

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