Experience New Writing Genres With Writing Prompt Grids!

Unlock your students’ creativity and build their writing skills with our Genre of the Month Writing Prompt Grids! Perfect for helping your students get to know new writing genres, these printable grids offer loads of inspiration for growing writers. Whether you’re teaching narrative, persuasive, informational, or imaginative writing, these grids provide fun and engaging writing prompts that challenge students to think, write, and experience a variety of writing forms.

This teaching resource is a great way to encourage writing across the curriculum. We have included a variety of subject-specific and general topics in the following writing genres.

• Personal Narrative
• Explanatory
• Informative
• Imaginative
• Persuasive (Opinion)

Ideas On Using Your Writing Prompt Grids for Upper Grades

• Print a class set and have students stick the grid in their writing journals. This makes a great warmup activity to spend 15-30 minutes on at the start of every day.
• Use it as a fast-finisher activity. When students have an extra minute after completing work, encourage them to select a topic and start a new piece of writing. Students can highlight the writing prompts they have used on their own grid.
• Print out the grid and laminate. Cut out each of the writing prompts and put them into a small tub. Students can then randomly pick a writing prompt during writing stations.

Download and Print!

This resource is available as a printable PDF or editable Google Slides resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and select your filetype. We recommend downloading the editable version and reviewing the prompts before printing, just in case you’d like to make a change.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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