Are you looking for ways to strengthen your students’ writing skills? These 30 picture writing prompts will give your students the practice they need to write narrative, opinion, and informative stories and essays while focusing on organization, evidence, sentence structure, and grammar. These picture writing prompts are perfect for writing practice any time during the year!

Through a variety of picture writing prompts, students will learn how to focus on the prompt given while writing good sentences and paragraphs and using their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. Each picture writing prompt was created to be a high-interest, curriculum-based topic that students will love to write about – perfect for students in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.

Included in this download:

30 PICTURE WRITING PROMPTS

• 10 Narrative Picture Writing Prompts
• 10 Opinion/Argumentative Picture Writing Prompts
• 10 Informative/Explanatory Picture Writing Prompts
• lined writing paper for each type of writing

Narrative Writing Prompts

Narrative writing requires students to tell a story. These narrative picture writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and setting including characters and plot
• organize their writing in a clear sequence of events with a beginning, middle, and end
• use details to support the topic/subject of their story
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Opinion Writing Prompts

Persuasive writing should start by clearly introducing an opinion on a topic while supporting the opinion with evidence. These opinion picture writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and clear opinion on the topic
• organize their ideas and information in a logical order
• use words and phrases to skillfully connect reasons and evidence to support their opinion
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

Informative Writing Prompts

Informative writing uses facts, definitions, details, quotes, examples, and other information to explain a topic in clear, well-thought-out paragraphs. These informative picture writing prompts require students to:

• establish a focus and demonstrate a strong understanding of the topic
• organize ideas and information in a logical order
• be descriptive by using facts, definitions, and examples as needed
• use outside resources to gather information as needed
• demonstrate skillful use of sentence structure
• use their best grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

These writing prompts are perfect for…

• independent desk work
• writing centers
• writing warm-ups
• writing test prep practice
• morning work
• homework
• assessments
• early finishers
• sub plans

The best part?

This resource is NO PREP and easy to use! Add these picture writing prompts to your daily or weekly assignments anytime during the year. Through a variety of writing genres and topics, students will quickly develop and grow their writing skills. Each writing prompt will give your students lots of practice as they become successful writers and prepare for state writing assessments.

In this one convenient resource, you can…

•have ready-to-go activities that will help your students improve their writing skills

•use these pre-made writing picture prompts as sub plans when you need to take a day (or week) off!

•print and go – includes everything you need to teach and reinforce writing skills anytime during the year!

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

This product meets all common core writing standards for 3rd – 6th grades.

Note: In order to meet standards W.3.6, W.4.6, W.5.6, and W.6.6 students will need to publish their writing through word processing. Students may need to complete short research projects in order to form a response to the Argumentative/Opinion Prompts and the Informational/Explanatory Prompts.

These short research projects will help meet standards W.3.7, W.4.7, W.5.7, W.6.7, W.3.8, W.4.8, W.5.8, W.6.8, W.4.9, W.5.9, W.6.9

(W.3.9 begins in 4th grade)