1. Creative High School Writing Prompts
These fun creative high school writing prompts are the kind of entertaining and challenging story starters that will get your high school students thinking freely and excited about writing…
2. Writing Prompts on Books
Use the power of books as a starting point for your students’ essays with these high school writing prompts on books..
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3. Expository Prompts on Careers
Most children have a dream of what they’d like to be when they grow up – so use that dream to get your high school students writing about careers and work….
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4. Expository Prompts on Civics and Public Policy
Challenge your students to think about a diverse range of topics by using these middle school writing prompts on civics and public policy…
5. Expository Prompts on Education
If there is one thing your students know about (and will have an opinion about) – it’s education. Use these prompts to engage them…
6. Expository Prompts on Endangered Species
There are thousands of species on the endangered species list and thousands more have become extinct. Stimulate your student’s imagination using the natural fascination and awe of extinct and endangered animals..
7. Environmental Writing Prompts
Why not get your high schoolers thinking more about the world around us and challenge them to write essays using these high school writing prompts on the Environment….
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8. Expository Prompts on Ethics
We each have a personal belief system that compels us to take action to promote or defend causes that we believe in. Use these prompts to stimulate your high school students to explain their stance..
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9. Expository Prompts on History
History is all around us and it is important for students to study the past to better understand the future. These writing prompts would be a great accompaniment to a field trip to a historic building or monument…..
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10. Expository Writing Prompts on Hobbies
These writing prompts on hobbies will give young children a chance to share what they do outside of school with their friends…
11. Expository Prompts on Leadership
These prompts are designed to make your students think about not only what it means to be a leader, but what it means to be a community member and friend….
12. Expository Prompts on Life Events
These high school writing prompts on life events are a great way to get your students sharing personal stories and adding valuable detail to their writings…..
13. Expository Prompts on My Town or City
Get your students writing about the town or city that they live in! They’ll be able to draw from their own personal experiences to write about their favorite places, how to get around, local geography and more….
14. Expository Writing Prompts on Music
No matter what age group or grade, from lullabies to Disney, from country to pop, from Taylor Swift to One Direction, your students will feel like rock stars with these high school writing prompts….
15. Expository Prompts Improving Your School
Get your kids involved in their school by asking them what THEY would improve……
16. Expository Writing Prompts on Science & Inventions
From language to architecture to technology to food, inventions spawns from the minds of those who dare to think bigger….
17. Expository Prompts on Space and Planets
Very little inspires more curiosity than space. From telescopes that let us see the planets to the rockets that take us to the stars, space and space travel are the things that were borne of the imagination….
18. Expository Writing Prompts on Technology
From the steam engine to the solar panel to the iPhone, every student will be able to find something to write about with these technology high school writing prompts….
19. Expository Writing Prompts on Vacations
Whether it’s a 3-month boondoggle in the summer, or a short week long jaunt in spring. students live for vacation. These prompts are designed to engage them into sharing their experiences…
20. What Would You Do Expository Prompts
Here are some writing prompts designed to test your student’s values, convictions, and resolve under trying circumstances….
21. Confucius Says – Writing Prompts
These Confucius quotes writing prompts are a sure way to get your high school students thinking critically…
22. Writing Prompts on Contradictory Proverbs
Proverbs are sayings that have been around for a long time. But sometimes they simply contradict each other…
