Writing Prompts for Pandemic Learning

As schools close for the unforeseeable future, teachers have been tasked with a monumental challenge: teach students remotely.  In a Digital Age, online learning seems like an easy solution, but not everything is always easy as it seems. 

​What if your students aren't trained to use an online learning platform? What if you live in an area where students do not access to technology at home? In the midst of a pandemic, teachers need a quick, easy and realistic solution for their students.
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How can we engage students at home? Keep it simple and engaging! Have your students participate in 31 days of writing prompts! 

• A Day in the Life: Write about your daily routine. How has school closing changed your routine?
• Connected World: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why? How would you get there?
• Technology Takeover: If you could create one piece of technology that could change the world for the better, what would it be? How would it work?
• Outside my Window: Look outside, what is the weather like? If you could change the weather outside, what would you change it to?
• Teach a Tourist: Describe your community to a tourist. What makes where you live unique?
• Face your Fears: What makes you feel scared? What do you do when you are scared?
• Family Traditions:  Does your family have any special traditions? Describe your family tradition.
• A Life Without Sight: Imagine you woke up one morning and could not see. How would you react? How would your life change? What would you do to cope with the change?
• A Life Without Speech: Imagine you woke up one morning and could not speak. How would you react? How would your life change? What would you do to cope with the change?
• Favorite Food: If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life, what          

           would it be? Why?

• First Thoughts: Write down the first three words that come to your mind. Now, write a story using those three words.
• Happy Thoughts: What makes you happy? How do you feel when you are happy?
• Sad Thoughts: What makes you sad? How do you feel when you are sad?
• Check In: How are you feeling today?
• Fail to Succeed: Write about a time when things didn’t go as you hoped. What positive impact did this time have on your life?
• When I Grow Up: What do you want to be when you grow up? How will you achieve this goal?
• Technology in the Future: How has technology changed in the past ten years?  Predict: How do you think technology will continue to change in the next ten years?
• A Life without Technology: How would life change if there was NO technology? More specifically, how would your life change?
• Alone in School: On Monday morning, you show up to school but no one else is there. What would you do?
• Favorite Memory: Write about a memory that makes you the happiest to think about. What was it? Why does it make you so happy?
• No School Dilemma: All of a sudden, there’s no school for a month! How will you continue to learn? What can you do to make sure you can receive an education during this time?
• Complaints: Write about your current complaints. What are they?
• Hidden Talent: Write about something you are secretly good at or something you wish you were secretly good at.
• Money Dilemma: What would happen if no one in the world knew how to count money?
• River Predicament: You and your friends have to cross a deep, fast moving river to get to the other side. How would you do it?
• Golden Rule: What is the most important rule that all humans should live by? Why?
• Favorite Book: Imagine you are a character in your favorite book.  What would your life be like?
• Tell a Friend: If you could tell one friend anything, what would it be? Why?
• Spirit Animal: If you could change into any animal, what would it be? Why?
• Floor is Lava: What adaptations (or changes) would society have to make it the ground was made out of lava?
• Space Suitcase: You are traveling to the International Space Station tomorrow! What would you pack in your suitcase?