Prompts

Each school day we publish a new Student Opinion question, and students use these writing prompts to reflect on their experiences and identities and respond to current events unfolding around them. To introduce each question, we provide an excerpt from a related New York Times article or Opinion piece as well as a free link…

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.…

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…

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

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.

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

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

Share your traditions, weigh in on a seasonal debate, write a story, reflect on the year behind you, or prepare for the one ahead.

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

Over 100 prompts to help you reflect on and write about your life.