Writing Prompts Narrative Opinion Informational Paragraph and Essay Writing

Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students' writing skills? These 15 writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. Just print and go or assign digitally through Google. These prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year! 

Through a variety of writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given while writing good sentences and paragraphs and using their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Each writing prompt was created to be a high-interest, curriculum-based topic that students will love to write about - perfect for students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Scoring rubrics for each writing genre are included that make it easy to grade writing and give feedback!

Included in this download:

• 5 Narrative Writing Prompts
• 5 Opinion/Argumentative Writing Prompts
• 5 Informative/Explanatory Writing Prompts
• lined writing paper
• scoring rubrics for each writing genre
• a digital Google Slides version with individual links to each writing prompt

The digital version of these writing prompts was Created in Google Slides™. They are compatible with Google Classroom™ and Google Drive™.

Narrative Writing Prompts

Narrative writing requires students to tell a story. These narrative writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and setting including characters and plot 
• organize their writing in a clear sequence of events with a beginning, middle, and end
• use details to support the topic/subject of their story
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Opinion Writing Prompts

Persuasive writing should start by clearly introducing an opinion on a topic while supporting the opinion with evidence. These opinion writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and clear opinion on the topic
• organize their ideas and information in a logical order
• use words and phrases to skillfully connect reasons and evidence to support their opinion
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Informative Writing Prompts

Informative writing uses facts, definitions, details, quotes, examples, and other information to explain a topic in clear, well-thought-out paragraphs. These informative writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and demonstrate a strong understanding of the topic
• organize ideas and information in a logical order 
• be descriptive by using facts, definitions, and examples as needed
• use outside resources to gather information as needed
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

These writing prompts are perfect for…

• independent desk work
• writing centers
• writing warm-ups
• writing test prep practice
• morning work
• homework
• assessments
• early finishers
• sub plans

The best part?

This resource is NO PREP and easy to use! Add these writing prompts to your daily or weekly assignments anytime during the year. Through a variety of writing genres and topics, students will quickly develop and grow their writing skills. Each writing prompt will give your students lots of practice as they become successful writers and prepare for state writing assessments.

Teachers like you said:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I needed a resource that would grab my students. They don't like writing and I am working on trying to motivate them to LOVE writing. I teach a 4/5 combo this year and this resource is helping me regulate both classes since one is working on narratives and the other class is working on opinion. Perfect resource for a combo class! - Lorna L.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ These prompts were spot on for reviewing for our writing test! It's hard to find writing resources that keep my students engaged. They enjoyed our writer's workshop approach to review. - Brooke C.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This product is a great writing resource for face to face and distance learning. The prompts are interesting and each one has directions that remind students of what needs to be included. The rubrics are very well thought out! - Bonnie R.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love the variety of prompts associated with this resource! My students were very engaged with these writing prompts and love responding to any type of prompt that connects to their own interests. I will definitely be using this resource from now on to plan writing activities! - Meg. W.

In this one convenient resource, you can…

•have ready-to-go activities that will help your students improve their writing skills

•use these pre-made writing prompts as sub plans when you need to take a day (or week) off!

•print and go or assign digitally - includes everything you need to teach and reinforce writing skills anytime during the year!

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

This product meets all common core writing standards for 3rd – 6th grades.

Note: In order to meet standards W.3.6, W.4.6, W.5.6, and W.6.6 students will need to publish their writing through word processing. Students may need to complete short research projects in order to form a response to the Argumentative/Opinion Prompts and the Informational/Explanatory Prompts.

These short research projects will help meet standards W.3.7, W.4.7, W.5.7, W.6.7, W.3.8, W.4.8, W.5.8, W.6.8, W.4.9, W.5.9, W.6.9

(W.3.9 begins in 4th grade)