Five-minute writing prompts for reluctant writers.
A considerable number of my students come to me struggling with free writing.
These five minute writing tasks are short, engaging and designed to get children(or adults) writing. Pick a task, set a timer for five minutes, and off you go!
1) Write about your favourite item of clothing. What does it look like? Why do you like it? Where did you get it? Who bought it?
2) Describe a day in the life of a plastic bag.
3) Write a list of excuses for being late. Try to create some that are ridiculous.
4) Explain the rules of your favourite game.
5) You are looking through a window; describe what you can see.
6) Write about a time something didn't work.
7) Describe your favourite place.
8) Write a story with the following elements: a robot, a plant pot, a character called Bobby Brightness, a kind act and some tape.
9) Make a list of green things.
10) Write about the contents of a postbox (it can be based upon a real experience or your imagination).
11) You are going on holiday; you can only take twenty things. Name them.
12) Write about finding someone else's notebook.
13) Name a famous person (dead or alive) who you would like to meet. Why would you like to meet them?
14) Describe a famous landmark without naming it.
15) Compose a list of things that are loud.
16) Write a note to yourself five years from now.
17) Describe one thing you don't like to eat and explain why you dislike it.
18) Write about your favourite character (or a character you like) from film, TV, a book or a computer game. Alternatively, write about a character you dislike.
19) Explain how hole punches work to a five-year-old.
20) Describe how we eat to an alien.
These five minute writing tasks are short, engaging and designed to get children(or adults) writing. Pick a task, set a timer for five minutes, and off you go!
1) Write about your favourite item of clothing. What does it look like? Why do you like it? Where did you get it? Who bought it?
2) Describe a day in the life of a plastic bag.
3) Write a list of excuses for being late. Try to create some that are ridiculous.
4) Explain the rules of your favourite game.
5) You are looking through a window; describe what you can see.
6) Write about a time something didn't work.
7) Describe your favourite place.
8) Write a story with the following elements: a robot, a plant pot, a character called Bobby Brightness, a kind act and some tape.
9) Make a list of green things.
10) Write about the contents of a postbox (it can be based upon a real experience or your imagination).
11) You are going on holiday; you can only take twenty things. Name them.
12) Write about finding someone else's notebook.
13) Name a famous person (dead or alive) who you would like to meet. Why would you like to meet them?
14) Describe a famous landmark without naming it.
15) Compose a list of things that are loud.
16) Write a note to yourself five years from now.
17) Describe one thing you don't like to eat and explain why you dislike it.
18) Write about your favourite character (or a character you like) from film, TV, a book or a computer game. Alternatively, write about a character you dislike.
19) Explain how hole punches work to a five-year-old.
20) Describe how we eat to an alien.