Prompts

Every day of the school year, The Learning Network publishes a Picture Prompt, an accessible, image-driven prompt that invites a variety of kinds of writing. In this Reader Idea, Meghan Mardus, an elementary music teacher at St. George’s School in Cologne, Germany, uses these prompts to inspire a different kind of activity — musical storytelling.…

We’ve been publishing our Picture Prompts series four days a week since 2016. These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to create short stories, poems and memoirs; share experiences from their lives; analyze illustrations, graphs and charts; and weigh in on hot-button issues.Here, we’ve rounded up all the Picture Prompts we published for the 2019-20…

What are your Turkey Day traditions? What are you grateful for this year? What is your favorite Thanksgiving memory? And more.

Four short, image-driven prompts that invite students to try different kinds of writing.

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…

Here are the news topics students had the most to say about this school year.

A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.

Photos and illustrations from The New York Times to inspire your spooky stories, poems and memoirs.

Questions to help students reflect on the meaning of friendship in their lives

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.