40 Writing Prompts With Graphic Organizers

This collection of descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive prompts sparks students' imaginations, scaffolds the writing process, and gets them prepared for the writing tests. Teachers choose from highly-motivating topics, such as an outrageous monster-for-sale ad that leads to narrative writing and a kid-invented holiday that students must persuade their principals to observe. Reproducible activity pages for each prompt include brainstorming guidance, a list of words to enhance writing, tips on organizing the writing, a graphic organizer designed just for that prompt, and a model lead.