5th Grade Writing Prompts with Pictures – Narrative Writing Sentence Starters
How to motivate 4th or 4th graders, especially reluctant writers, to get the creative juices flowing?!
Every student is different and when we’re dealing with this preteen age it can be a challenge to engage writers in
the writing process. So over the years, I have found the following tips to work wonders!
- Give students a choice – the opportunity to choose their own writing topics or avoid writer’s block, provide writing prompts that they can choose from. They are much more likely to be engaged in the writing process if they feel like they’ve had a choice in the topic!
- Use Writing Prompts: Provide engaging writing prompts or sentence starters to get students to build on the idea or topic. These can be related to current events, creative scenarios, or thought-provoking questions
- Provide an Print-Rich Environment: Display how-to narrative anchor charts, vocabulary walls, dictionaries, word of the day, word or week, writer’s workshop, writing center
- Read Aloud: No matter how old students are, everyone loves a read aloud! Put aside 10 or 15 minutes daily to read a mentor text or a novel that students can immerse themselves into and enjoy the experience of a story teller reading to them.
- Role Model Good Writing: Share your own enthusiasm for writing and think alouds – so students know exactly what the writing process is…a process!
If you find creative narrative writing lessons challenging then this NO PREP resource will literally save you hours of planning time! These super fun 5th grade writing worksheets each have engaging prompts, embedded narrative steps and pictures for scaffolding. Start off with the digital link on How to Write Narratives, follow the explicit step-by-step poster, print the student narrative planner for pre writing, story map and over 30 writing worksheets.
5th Grade Writing Prompts with Pictures – Narrative Writing Sentence Starters
Create your own writing worksheets or click here to purchase a whole set of no prep narrative writing prompts!
This Narrative Mini-Unit is available both in print and digital formats and consists of the following:
- Narrative Planner for Pre-writing
- 30 narrative writing prompt worksheets
- 30 differentiation writing templates
- Each writing template consists of an embedded narrative checklist to help scaffold students through the writing process
What educators are saying about this resource:
I used these as morning work for my students and they really enjoyed them…especially getting to color the little characters when their work was done! – Faith
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