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Scholastic's Story Starters kids' writing activity generates creative writing prompts, from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and science fiction.

Printable worksheets with picture prompts and lined paper:

Lesson plans to get you started with teaching core vocabulary to your students.

for younger students

Wonderful science videos to use as discussion starters!

This is a great tool to get students motivated to write. Once they realize writing can be fun they will want to write more!

The graphics provide wonderful visual prompts that inspire students to create text and story content.

Make your own comics! Great for literacy, story starters, social situation stories and more!

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.

The Language Lab provides lesson plans for using core vocabulary in a variety of play activities.

Printable worksheets with picture prompts and lined paper:

interactive

for older students

Creative Writing Prompts collection of writing prompts and story starters for writers. Come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories with the help of these creative writing ideas.