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9th - 10th Grade Writing

For ninth and tenth graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of writing skills by working collaboratively and producing written texts, understanding syntax and vocabulary, and organizing their ideas. Among the complete standards for this grade, ninth and tenth graders will be asked to: support the claims of their arguments with evidence, valid reasoning, and credible sources and support it with an understand of relationships between claims and an understanding of the audience, use a formal style when writing within the norms and claims of the discipline, be able to develop the topic of a work with details, facts, definitions, and quotations, employ formatting, graphics, and multimedia to present information in the written medium, develop a writing topic with relevant facts, definitions, and concrete details, go through the process of writing, editing and revision for their written work with attention to purpose and audience, use appropriate technology to publish writing and to collaborate on written projects with use of linking technology to demonstrate correlations between sources or related material, demonstrate keyboarding skill, go through the process of writing, editing and revision for their written work, conduct short research projects to answer a question, begin to understand the relationship of material to their source work such as the way that Shakespeare might draw on themes from Ovid, quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of supporting texts while avoiding plagiarism and using proper citation, use evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

How to Write a Thesis Statement

This activity helps students develop a strong thesis statement for their essays by providing practice writing sample statements.

How to Write an Introduction: Bridge Building Activity

This activity is designed to help students learn about writing introductions through a fun bridge building activity to join the lead noun card and thesis statement card.

How to Write an Introduction: Different Leads

This is a fun, creative activity where students explore ways to include factoids, stories, metaphors and more to create “hooks”. A great activity to help students develop strong introductions.

How to Write an Introduction: Lead Types

Creating an attention-grabbing lead isn’t always easy but it’s very rewarding to students when they are able to create engaging introductions. This activity provides great practice to build better introductions!

How to Write an Introduction: Lead, Bridge, and Thesis

Let’s combine it all! This activity helps students use thesis statements, bridges and leads to write strong essay introductions.

How to Write an Introduction: Write a Complete Introduction

This activity helps students bring together what they’ve learned to write a complete introduction, including the lead, bridge, and thesis statement.

Main Idea Graphic Organizer

Staying organized can be difficult, especially when you are trying to keep your writing and ideas well organized. With this printable Main Idea Graphic Organizer, students can keep their thoughts and ideas organized and separated based on their order of importance.

Organize the Main Idea

Help your students learn how to better organize their ideas with this Main Idea Organizer. Students will be asked to come up with a title, write a main idea, and support the main idea with three written details. In order to excel at writing, it is important to learn how to construct paragraphs in a way that is easy for the reader to understand the argument.

Paragraph: Proofing and Editing

Use this “Printable Writing Worksheet” to help get in the routine of proofing and editing.

Write a Conclusion: Voting

A strongly written conclusion can sway a reader one way or another. When writing persuasive articles it is important that you restate your thesis and give strong supporting ideas. The conclusion is the last chance you will have to sway your readers. This free printable worksheet is perfect for students to practice writing conclusions.

Tenth Grade Creative Writing Worksheets

• Scoring Rubric: Poetry
• Student Proofreading Checklist
• Creative Writing with Photo Inspiration
• Scoring Rubric: Research Report/Paper
• Poetry Terms Quiz
• An Immigrant's Story
• The "I Remember" Poem
• Scoring Rubric: Literary Analysis/Interpretation
• Scoring Rubric: Summary
• Scoring Rubric: Narrative Based on Personal Experiences
• Scoring Rubric: Drama
• Writing Self-Assessment
• Scoring Rubric: Comparison/Contrast
• Scoring Rubric: Response to Literature
• Life's Not Always Fair
• Poem from a List of Prompts
• Answer to an Unasked Question
• Scoring Rubric: How-to/Process Explanation
• Scoring Rubric: Description
• Build a Better Metaphor
• Initial Self-Assessment: Writing
• Scoring Rubric: Definition/Classification
• Scoring Rubric: Persuasion
• Speak to Me in Iambic
• Scoring Rubric: Expression
• Moe's Café
• Public Transportation: Advertising
• Peer Conference Notes: Reader
• Scoring Rubric: Evaluation/Review
• Peer Conference Notes: Writer
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Reading strategies

A. main idea.

• 1 Determine the main idea of a passage

B. Audience, purpose, and tone

• 1 Which text is most formal?
• 2 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
• 3 Identify audience and purpose
• 4 Compare passages for tone

C. Literary devices

• 1 Identify the narrative point of view
• 2 Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
• 3 Recall the source of an allusion
• 4 Interpret figures of speech
• 5 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
• 6 Classify figures of speech: review
• 7 Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

D. Analyzing literature

• 1 Analyze short stories: set 1
• 2 Analyze short stories: set 2
• 3 Identify elements of poetry

E. Analyzing informational texts

• 1 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
• 2 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
• 3 Trace an argument: set 1
• 4 Trace an argument: set 2
• 5 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
• 6 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

F. Novel study

• 1 Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart : Part 1
• 2 Analyze passages from Things Fall Apart : Part 2

G. Nonfiction book study

• 1 Analyze passages from Into Thin Air : Part 1
• 2 Analyze passages from Into Thin Air : Part 2

H. Business documents

• 1 Read workplace emails and memos
• 2 Read business letters and notices

Writing strategies

I. organizing writing.

• 1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
• 2 Organize information by topic

J. Topic sentences and thesis statements

• 1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
• 2 Identify thesis statements

K. Developing and supporting arguments

• 1 Distinguish facts from opinions
• 2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
• 3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
• 4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
• 5 Evaluate counterclaims
• 6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
• 7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
• 8 Classify logical fallacies

L. Persuasive strategies

• 1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements
• 2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing

M. Creative techniques

• 1 Use personification

N. Writing clearly and concisely

• 1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
• 2 Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons
• 3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
• 4 Use parallel structure
• 5 Remove redundant words or phrases

O. Active and passive voice

• 1 Identify active and passive voice
• 2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice

P. Editing and revising

• 1 Use the correct frequently confused word
• 2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
• 3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
• 4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
• 5 Correct errors with signs
• 6 Correct errors in everyday use
• 7 Suggest appropriate revisions

Q. Research skills

• 1 Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
• 2 Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
• 3 Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
• 4 Identify plagiarism

R. Prefixes and suffixes

• 1 Word pattern analogies
• 2 Word pattern sentences
• 3 Words with pre-
• 4 Words with re-
• 5 Words with sub-
• 6 Words with mis-
• 7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
• 8 Words with -ful
• 9 Words with -less
• 10 Words with -able and -ible

S. Greek and Latin roots

• 1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
• 2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
• 3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

T. Homophones

• 1 Use the correct homophone
• 2 Identify and correct errors with homophones

U. Foreign words and expressions

• 1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
• 2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
• 3 Use the correct foreign expression

V. Word choice and usage

• 1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
• 2 Use words accurately and precisely
• 3 Replace words using a thesaurus
• 4 Explore words with new or contested usages

W. Analogies

• 1 Analogies
• 2 Analogies: challenge

X. Context clues

• 1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
• 2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
• 3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Y. Reference skills

• 1 Use dictionary entries
• 2 Use dictionary definitions
• 3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
• 4 Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

Z. sentences, fragments, and run-ons.

• 1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory?
• 2 Identify sentence fragments
• 3 Identify run-on sentences
• 4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

AA. Phrases and clauses

• 1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
• 2 Identify prepositional phrases
• 3 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
• 4 Identify dependent and independent clauses
• 5 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
• 6 Combine sentences using relative clauses
• 1 Form and use plurals: review
• 2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns

CC. Pronouns

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
• 2 Subject and object pronouns review
• 3 Pronouns after "than" and "as"
• 4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
• 5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
• 6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
• 7 Identify vague pronoun references
• 8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
• 9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

DD. Verb types

• 1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
• 2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns
• 3 Identify participles and what they modify
• 4 Identify gerunds and their functions
• 5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

EE. Subject-verb agreement

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
• 2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
• 3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

FF. Verb tense

• 1 Form the progressive verb tenses
• 2 Form the perfect verb tenses
• 3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

GG. Adjectives and adverbs

• 1 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
• 2 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
• 3 Good, better, best, bad, worse, and worst
• 4 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
• 5 Well, better, best, badly, worse, and worst

HH. Conjunctions

• 1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

II. Misplaced modifiers

• 1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
• 2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
• 3 Are the modifiers used correctly?

JJ. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

• 1 What does the punctuation suggest?
• 2 Commas with nonrestrictive elements
• 1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases
• 2 Commas with series, dates, and places
• 3 Commas with compound and complex sentences
• 4 Commas with coordinate adjectives
• 5 Commas: review

LL. Semicolons, colons, and commas

• 1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
• 2 Use semicolons, colons, and commas with lists
• 3 Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

MM. Dashes, hyphens, and ellipses

• 1 Use dashes
• 2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
• 3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

NN. Apostrophes

• 1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
• 2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

OO. Capitalization

• 1 Correct capitalization errors

PP. Formatting

• 1 Formatting quotations and dialogue

Grade 10 English language arts

IXL offers more than 100 grade 10 English language arts skills to explore and learn! Not sure where to start? Go to your personalized Recommendations wall to find a skill that looks interesting, or select a skill plan that aligns to your textbook, provincial curriculum, or standardized test.

Reading strategies

A. main idea.

• 1 Determine the main idea of a passage

B. Audience, purpose and tone

• 1 Which text is most formal?
• 2 Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
• 3 Identify audience and purpose
• 4 Compare passages for tone

C. Literary devices

• 1 Identify the narrative point of view
• 2 Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
• 3 Recall the source of an allusion
• 4 Interpret figures of speech
• 5 Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
• 6 Classify figures of speech: review
• 7 Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

D. Analyzing literature

• 1 Analyze short stories: set 1
• 2 Analyze short stories: set 2

E. Analyzing informational texts

• 1 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
• 2 Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
• 3 Trace an argument: set 1
• 4 Trace an argument: set 2
• 5 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1
• 6 Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

Writing strategies

F. organizing writing.

• 1 Order topics from broadest to narrowest
• 2 Organize information by topic

G. Topic sentences and thesis statements

• 1 Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea
• 2 Identify thesis statements

H. Developing and supporting arguments

• 1 Distinguish facts from opinions
• 2 Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
• 3 Choose the best evidence to support a claim
• 4 Identify supporting evidence in a text
• 5 Evaluate counterclaims
• 6 Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim
• 7 Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims

I. Persuasive strategies

• 1 Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements
• 2 Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing

J. Creative techniques

• 1 Use personification

K. Writing clearly and concisely

• 1 Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
• 2 Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
• 3 Identify sentences with parallel structure
• 4 Use parallel structure
• 5 Remove redundant words or phrases

L. Active and passive voice

• 1 Identify active and passive voice
• 2 Rewrite the sentence in active voice

M. Editing and revising

• 1 Use the correct frequently confused word
• 2 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
• 3 Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
• 4 Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
• 5 Correct errors with signs
• 6 Correct errors in everyday use
• 7 Suggest appropriate revisions

N. Research skills

• 1 Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
• 2 Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition)
• 3 Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
• 4 Identify plagiarism

O. Prefixes and suffixes

• 1 Word pattern analogies
• 2 Word pattern sentences
• 3 Words with pre-
• 4 Words with re-
• 5 Words with sub-
• 6 Words with mis-
• 7 Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
• 8 Words with -ful
• 9 Words with -less
• 10 Words with -able and -ible

P. Greek and Latin roots

• 1 Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots
• 2 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
• 3 Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 4 Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
• 5 Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Q. Homophones

• 1 Use the correct homophone
• 2 Identify and correct errors with homophones

R. Foreign words and expressions

• 1 Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
• 2 Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
• 3 Use the correct foreign expression

S. Word usage and nuance

• 1 Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
• 2 Use words accurately and precisely
• 3 Replace words using a thesaurus
• 4 Explore words with new or contested usages

T. Analogies

• 1 Analogies
• 2 Analogies: challenge

U. Context clues

• 1 Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
• 2 Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
• 3 Use context to identify the meaning of a word

V. Reference skills

• 1 Use dictionary entries
• 2 Use dictionary definitions
• 3 Use dictionary entries to determine correct usage
• 4 Use thesaurus entries

Grammar and mechanics

W. sentences, fragments and run-ons.

• 1 Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory?
• 2 Identify sentence fragments
• 3 Identify run-on sentences
• 4 Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons

X. Phrases and clauses

• 1 Is it a phrase or a clause?
• 2 Identify prepositional phrases
• 3 Identify appositives and appositive phrases
• 4 Identify dependent and independent clauses
• 5 Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
• 6 Combine sentences using relative clauses
• 1 Form and use plurals: review
• 2 Form and use plurals of compound nouns

Z. Pronouns

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
• 2 Subject and object pronouns review
• 3 Pronouns after "than" and "as"
• 4 Identify and correct pronoun errors with "who"
• 5 Use relative pronouns: who and whom
• 6 Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
• 7 Identify vague pronoun references
• 8 Identify all of the possible antecedents
• 9 Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person

AA. Verb types

• 1 Identify transitive and intransitive verbs
• 2 Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
• 3 Identify participles and what they modify
• 4 Identify gerunds and their functions
• 5 Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

BB. Subject-verb agreement

• 1 Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
• 2 Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
• 3 Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

CC. Verb tense

• 1 Form the progressive verb tenses
• 2 Form the perfect verb tenses
• 3 Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

DD. Adjectives and adverbs

• 1 Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
• 2 Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
• 3 Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
• 4 Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst

EE. Conjunctions

• 1 Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

FF. Misplaced modifiers

• 1 Misplaced modifiers with pictures
• 2 Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
• 3 Are the modifiers used correctly?

GG. Restrictive and nonrestrictive elements

• 1 What does the punctuation suggest?
• 2 Commas with nonrestrictive elements
• 1 Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases
• 2 Commas with compound and complex sentences
• 3 Commas with coordinate adjectives

II. Semicolons, colons and commas

• 1 Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
• 2 Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
• 3 Semicolons, colons and commas: review

JJ. Dashes, hyphens and ellipses

• 1 Use dashes
• 2 Use hyphens in compound adjectives
• 3 Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately

KK. Apostrophes

• 1 Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns
• 2 Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

LL. Capitalization

• 1 Correct capitalization errors

MM. Formatting

• 1 Formatting quotations and dialogue

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Grade 10 Writing Prompts Worksheets

Related ela standard: w.9-10.3, grade 10 writing prompt worksheets:.

No Cell Phones! – Your school is considering banning the possession or use of cell phones.

Are Schools Getting It Done? – One or two generations ago, most students expected that they would graduate from high school or college and get a job working for someone else.

A Quote To You... – Think about what Rilke says. What does it mean? Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

Which Language? – Take a position regarding what language you believe it would be the most beneficial for your friend to study.

New Tech – What are the pros and cons of school curriculums changing to incorporate ever-changing technology? Why do you think so?

2/3 Need Help? – Two thirds of all Americans are now considered overweight or obese, and obesity is at the root of the majority of American's health problems.

Exchange Program – You are going to participate in a foreign exchange program where you and another student swap homes and schools for a semester.

Physical Education – Physical Education is mandatory in many high schools. Do you think that this should be a necessary requirement in order to graduate?

Be Persuasive – Your school has decided that as students advance through high school, they should be given an additional privilege with every grade.

Married Teens? – What are the pros and cons of teenagers getting married? Take a position on the issue. Then write to your state legislature to convince them to agree with your opinion.

Equal Opportunity – Athletes make salaries that some people consider to be exorbitant. Meanwhile, people holding jobs as teachers and firefighters are barely making it financially from month to month.

Writing to Explain – Think about the prompt. Then write a letter in which you explain to a friend the relationship between change and individual actions and decisions.

Expository Writing – Read the quotation. How do you feel about age?

Write In Essay – Choose one of the writing prompts below. Write an essay that answers the prompt.

Breakout Gun Violence – Gun violence, in particular, mass shootings, have increased significantly over the years.

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Middle school, high school, ets criterion sm library, grade 10 prompts, ws the room (descriptive).

Write a descriptive essay about a room or an area you know well, such as your bedroom or your English classroom. Describe the layout using spatial organization (top to bottom, front to back, left to right). Also include sensory details (sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste) so your reader can “see” the space clearly and understand how the parts relate to each other.

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WS Point of View (Expository)

The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.” Explain why it is important to see a situation from another person’s point of view. Use examples and anecdotes from your own experience to support your viewpoint.

WS Happiness (Expository)

Aristotle once said, “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Everyone knows the word “happiness,” but most of us have a different idea of what it means to be happy. Write an essay that defines the word “happiness” and include two or three examples either from your own experience or from literature.

WS A Good Job (Expository)

Many high school students have part-time jobs. Students often choose jobs that are based on economical factors and personal preferences. Identify a part-time job that you would like to have, analyze the duties involved, and explain why you believe the job would suit you.

WS Good Parents/Guardians (Expository)

Good parents or guardians demonstrate many valuable qualities that help nurture and raise children effectively. Choose three qualities of a good parent or guardian and write an essay that includes examples to support your choices.

WS Classes (Expository)

In a letter to a friend, compare and contrast two classes that you are currently taking. Write down the positive and the negative aspects of each class, using particular details or experiences from each.

WS Proud Accomplishment (Narrative)

Every person has moments of personal victory or achievement. In an article for your school newspaper, narrate an incident or an accomplishment that made you really proud. Make the experience come alive with vivid details and dialogue.

WS Personal Understanding (Narrative)

Sometimes adults say they attended the “School of Hard Knocks.” They mean that they learned by doing, by working, and by living. In a personal narrative, share a time in your life when you really understood something because you did it yourself. Show some of the “hard knocks” you endured, and clearly indicate what you learned.

WS Teen Licenses (Persuasive)

Your state plans to double license fees for drivers under the age of 18. The money will be used to fund driver-education programs. Write an editorial for your student newspaper supporting or opposing this decision. Use specific reasons and details to argue for your position.

WS Local Produce (Persuasive)

Your school food service wants to buy more produce from local farmers. This food is a bit more expensive, but it is free of pesticides. Write a letter to the food-service director giving your specific reasons for supporting or objecting to the plan.

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Grade 10 English Writing

Descriptive composition.

A descriptive composition describes people, animals, places or things that really exist or are imaginary.

Sample topics with guidelines for writing

1. An unusual person

Note down some details about this person.

His/her name; interesting features; achievements

What makes him/her different from the average person

Qualities of the person; humble, kind, talented, exceptional, famous, notorious, modest

2. You are staying in a hostel and have made a few good friends. Write a letter to your parents, describing one of those close friends in about 350-400 words. You may follow the guidelines provided.

Your relationship with the person – relative or friend

How did you become acquainted?

Qualities of the person; warm, kind, generous, understanding, jovial, admirable, interesting, helpful

Other qualities – a willingness to teach you many things. (You may decide to state the qualities directly or you may prefer to give instances of things the person did or said to demonstrate the qualities you mentioned.)

Your own feelings towards the person.

3. You are writing a letter to your pen friend. In your letter you describe your neighbourhood.

General impression of location, appearance, and occupation of residents.

Your relationship with neighbours – friendly, helpful, interfering, indifferent, quarrelsome. Give a few examples of how attitudes are shown.

Your feelings about living in this neighbourhood

Your idea of an ideal neighbourhood.

Sample descriptive composition topics

• Describe an occasion when you found yourself in an awkward position.
• Write about an occasion when you did not heed advice that was given to you.
• A person I admire very much.
• Describe some of your experiences as a member of a study project.

Narrative composition

A narrative composition tells a story. It may be about something fictitious or it may be about a real event.

Sample topics with guidelines

1. You are trapped on the tenth floor of a burning building. Write an exciting narrative with yourself as the main character. Give your story a title.

You may start like this:

About ten in the morning, we were alarmed by shouts of ‘fire’ in the building. We made a dash for the stairs but found that the smoke was too thick. The emergency exit, for some unknown reason, was sealed. Someone telephoned the fire brigade….

2. Complete this story about a girl who was leaving home. Make sure that there is conflict and an unexpected outcome.

Where was Farah going?

Why was she leaving home?

What thoughts and feelings were running through her mind as she sat in the train?

Did her parents know she was leaving? How did she feel about it?

What decision did she make in the train?

What happened in the end?

You may begin like this.

At 6.30 that Monday morning, Farah slipped out of the house with her suitcase and walked into the drizzle. By seven she was sitting in the train bound for…..

Sample narrative composition topics

• Write a story based on the following: a. I could not understand why he turned to me. b. Something about his expression alarmed me. c. She took days to make a decision.
• Write a story about a message that was misread.
• Write a story about a danger that was averted.

Expository composition

The expository composition deals more with facts and ideas rather than with personal impressions. The main skills involved are describing, explaining and interpreting.

Sample expository composition topics

• Choosing a career
• Ways of dealing with stress
• A national leader whom you admire very much
• The importance of fitness

Argumentative and discussive composition

Argumentative and discussive compositions test your ability to debate or discuss a proposition using sound reasoning and careful organisation.

Sample argumentative and discussive topics

• Young people today are self-centred and materialistic. Discuss.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of studying abroad.
• Television has done more harm than good. Discuss.
• How would you convince a friend of the dangers of drinking?

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Sometimes students need a little push to activate their imaginations.

The collection of prompts below asks young writers to think through real or imagined events, their emotions, and a few wacky scenarios. Try out the ones you think will resonate most with your students. 

As with all prompts, inform students that their answers should be rated G and that disclosing dangerous or illegal things they’re involved in will obligate you to file a report with the administration or school counselors. Finally, give students the option of writing “PERSONAL” above some entries that they don’t want anyone to read. We all need to let scraggly emotions run free in our prose sometimes.

If your class uses daybooks (an approach recommended in Thinking Out Loud: The Student Daybook as a Tool to Foster Learning ), wait for composition notebooks to go on sale at Target, the Dollar Store, or Walmart for $0.50 a piece. To organize the daybook, direct young writers to leave the first three pages blank and number and date each entry—adding these entries to a table of contents that they create as they work so they can return to specific entries later. 

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• Should cameras on drones watch all public spaces to prevent crime, or is that a violation of privacy? 
• Do Americans have it too easy? Why do you think that?
• What causes racism?
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hires you as a consultant to determine how best to use $20 billion to save the world. What’s your plan?
• What’s the worst thing about the internet? 
• Would you rather be very beautiful or very smart? Explain.
• You can save one object before your house burns down. What is it? What makes that object important to you?
• How much control over your life do you have? What makes you say that? 
• Describe your ideal life 15 years from now. What is something you can do every day to reach that goal?
• What would your friends say is your most lovable quality? Describe that quality. 
• What is something scary that you would like to try? What makes it scary for you? How might you overcome that fear?
• What things do you conscientiously do to feed your brain?
• What are three of your most profound learning experiences? Where and when did they occur?
• By age 18, the average American has seen 200,000 acts of violence on TV, including 40,000 murders. What is it about television violence that is so compelling to people?
• Would you rather be loved or respected? Because?
• Does social media represent individuals authentically? Explain with examples. 
• Imagine that it’s the last day of high school and you’ve been asked by a teacher to say a few words that summarize the events that have occurred over the last four years that are most meaningful to you. What do you say? 

Middle School Prompts

• Which classmate would be the best to lead us through a zombie apocalypse? Why? 
• What real-life situations would work out better for you if you were a different gender? Why?
• How can you tell when someone your age is feeling insecure? Are most people more insecure or anxious than they let on?
• If the internet were to crash forever, what would the benefits be for you? The drawbacks?
• Write a scene that features a) a classmate, b) $100 million, and c) magical shoes. 
• What three features should your future house have? Why?
• If you starred in a television show about your life, what would the show be called? What genre would it be? (Examples: comedy, drama, thriller, romance, action-adventure, fantasy, superhero, soap opera, reality, game show, space adventure, Western, tragedy, etc.) Summarize the plot of an episode. 
• In the future, what extreme sports will people be talking about?
• Is your ethnicity an important part of your identity? How so? 
• You get to take one book, one food item, and one famous person (living or dead) to a deserted island. What and who do you take? Why?
• Write a powerfully supportive email to yourself 10 years from now. Send that email to yourself using FutureMe.org . 
• You have been selected to be king or queen of your school. What are five rules that every kid should follow at your school? What should the punishment be for rule breakers?
• What do the five friends you hang out with most have in common? How are you most like them? How are you different from them?
• What contributes to someone becoming a bully? What can help stop someone from bullying?
• Do you make friends slowly or quickly? Describe how one of your important friendships evolved.
• Should we fear failure? Explain.
• If a wizard could tell you anything about your future, what would you most like to know?
• Do you believe in luck? Are you superstitious? How so? If not, why do you think some people are?

Elementary School Prompts

• I wish my teachers knew that . . .
• What’s the most beautiful person, place, or thing you’ve ever seen? Share what makes that person, place, or thing so special. 
• Which is better, giant muscles or incredible speed? Why?
• What is your most difficult subject in school? Why is it difficult? What can you do to get better at that subject?
• Rewrite “Hansel and Gretel” from the witch’s perspective.
• Describe a scary situation that you’ve experienced.
• What is your first memory? Describe it.
• You wake up tomorrow with a silly superpower that makes you famous. What is that silly power? How does it lead to your becoming an international superstar? 
• Are you a good loser? Explain. 
• What are examples of things you want versus things you need? 
• Last Friday, you were given one wish by a magical panda. You tried so hard to make the wish positive, but after the whacked-out events that unfolded over the weekend, you regret ever meeting that tricky panda. What did you ask for, and what happened?
• I wish my friends . . . 
• Describe a routine that you often or always do (in the morning, when you get home, Friday nights, before a game, etc.).
• What things do all kids know that adults do not?
• What TV or movie characters do you wish were real? Why? 

After they’ve finished an entry, ask students to read their work aloud or exchange daybooks for a read-around. If you give the entries written feedback, show that their work is respected by using a sticky note or scratch paper. 

You might also incorporate background writing music one day a week—say on “Music Monday.” For some examples of music you might use in class, Pitchfork has an article called “ The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time .” My favorite album for composing is the Birdy soundtrack by Peter Gabriel—a good one for older kids. Other Edutopia staff and bloggers like writing to Coffitivity , Noisli , Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Alcest’s Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde .

Don’t forget to write along with your students. Why should they have all the fun?

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