Tim Haag

This is a 50-prompt sample from my hard-copy and e-book, Writing Warmups, which features over 1000 prompts to spur writers to elude mental blocks, incite creativity, and fill blank pages with first drafts that can evolve into polished (and published) pieces. While all writers will benefit from the multitude of ideas (and extra-wide margins for inspired notes and notions), teachers and writers for children will especially appreciate this edition's 'G'-rated subject matter. Since his participat

Writing Warmups offers over 1000 prompts to loosen your students' writing muscles and spur them to fill notebooks with vivid characters and imaginative, entertaining plots. NOTE: Make sure you also borrow some ideas from my included list of '20 Ways to Use Writing Warmups'. The book challenges writers to apply these open-ended scenarios and snippets of dialogue as material for stories' beginnings, middles, or endings.

Customize, print out, and post these PowerPoint slides to reaffirm the importance of gratitude. Use them for newsletters and your teacher website. Use them as prompts for a short writing project. They can be springboards for character education discussions.

Customize, print out, and post these PowerPoint slides to reaffirm the importance of determination. Use them for newsletters and your teacher website. Use them as prompts for a short writing project. They can be springboards for character education discussions.

Here is a set of six activities intended to shine the light on grandparents and, for those students without grandparents, an honored adult in their lives [other than their mom and dad]. Consider repurposing these activities for Mother's Day and Father's Day. Give the kids at least three choices from this packet to see which ones they gravitate to. Make sure you use the vocabulary lists to generate your own related activities. Send along product requests to th@inventwithwords.com

Greetings, teachers. I kept the background white to save your toner and ink. [Feel free to customize these as needed.] I hope these three posters are useful. Check in with me at th@ednotions.com with requests and suggestions. Tim Haag

50 More Free Writing Prompts Let me know if you'd like a PowerPoint/Google Slides/Keynote version [one prompt per page] for classroom/instructional use. Thanks for visiting! Tim Haag ednotions.com and inventwithwords.com