Writing Prompts on Love, Dating and Relationships
Want to find out what it’s like to write about love and weddings for The New York Times? Join our online conversation with the Vows writer Rosalie R. Radomsky through Feb. 19.Do you love love? Is Valentine’s Day your favorite holiday? Are you a hopeless romantic at heart? If so, then these 10 questions all…
176 Writing Prompts to Spark Discussion and Reflection
Each day of the school year we publish a Student Opinion question inviting students to share their own opinions and experiences in response to New York Times stories on the news of the day. To introduce each question, we provide an excerpt from a related Times article, interactive or video as well as a free…
310 Prompts for Argumentative Writing
Does social media harm young people’s mental health? Do video games deserve the bad rap they often get? Should parents track their children? Who is the greatest athlete of all time? Every school day, we publish new questions for students based on the news of the day, including prompts, like these, that inspire persuasive writing.Below,…
Writing Prompts About Food, Family and Culture
When you think of your cultural or familial traditions, do you think of food? The meals that are part of your holiday celebrations? The special dishes your parents or grandparents have prepared for you? The flavors that remind you of who you are and where you’re from?Why does food mean so much to us? Here…
15 Prompts for Talking and Writing About Friendship
Questions to help students reflect on the meaning of friendship in their lives
10 Prompts for Talking and Writing About Thanksgiving
What are your Turkey Day traditions? What are you grateful for this year? What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory? And more.
How Writing Prompts Can Motivate Students for Mock Debate
A fourth-grade teacher shares how he used a list of questions compiled by The Learning Network to get students writing and talking about the issues that mattered to them.
25 Picture Prompts for Writing Scary Stories
Photos and illustrations from The New York Times to inspire your spooky stories, poems and memoirs.
145 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing
A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
Picture Prompts: An Invitation to Write
Four short, image-driven prompts that invite students to try different kinds of writing.
