What are students made of? This activity prompts students to reimagine recipes and write about their life experiences.

In this activity, students draw upon inspiration from existing text and the world around them to launch stories of their own.

This activity prompts students to write words unspoken in letters that are undelivered.

Amanda Gorman, Inaugural U.S. Youth Poet Laureate, shares her favorite way to inspire a new poem or get past writer’s block.

In this Spark, students will pretend to be their favorite food and write about what that food would do on an average day.

Students will be asked to take an existing 4-panel comic and create their own dialogue. This is a fun quick activity or warm-up exercise that will challenge students to write efficiently.

With a little folding and loads of creativity, students make their own zines that feature abstract recipes.

These 10 prompts ask students to browse the 826 Digital Student Writing Gallery for writing inspiration.

This activity reinforces the role of dialogue in a story, with students creating realistic conversation in A-Z fashion.

Students use illustrations as entry points to write stories about friendship from a new perspective.

Students write similes to express what their emotions feel like and build plans to treat others with kindness and empathy.

Students experiment with alternative ways of writing poetry by reordering and rearranging pre-existing text.

Students will write a personal narrative where they describe themselves as a place. Not a specific place, but all the things a "place" consists of.

Students will identify their favorite sensory memories and transfer them to a visual heart map.

Students enter a Writing Laboratory, no lab coats required, and use methods of observation to embark on their writing process.

Students learn to incorporate setting as a key element of a story, starting with inspiration from collages.

This activity encourages young writers to identify the rules in their own poems and to then experience the joy of either smashing the rules outright or finding a graceful way to reimagine them.

In this activity, students will explore superhero traits or superpowers that they know or admire. What kind of jobs do they do? How do their powers help them achieve this?

Engage young writers of any age at home with this collection of 826 Digital writing prompts and activities.

Sometimes the shape of the poem can convey as much meaning as the words themselves.

This activity explores the way emotions change how we perceive settings. Students work in groups to create descriptions of apartments based on an emotion they draw from a hat.

Nouns, adjectives, verbs—and in this case—adverbs are the building blocks of super sentences. In this Spark, students will practice identifying and using adverbs in their writing.

This Spark provides students with the opportunity to get to know their classmates by sharing personal stories about a specific topic.

In this Spark, students will write a poem that can be used as a tool to introduce themselves to their classmates.

Students discuss the 2021 inaugural poem by Amanda Gorman and write their own poems in response to "The Hill We Climb."

In this Spark, students will write a poem that engages the reader in answering the question: Can you guess this food?

This Spark uses students’ favorite things to support their persuasive writing practice.

Students teach a "pirate" how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and learn how to give effective instructions in the process.

In this twist on a classic game, students will practice intentional inclusivity with their classmates, as well as brainstorm other ways to continue building community throughout the school year.

After writing about their personal and social identities, students discover that sometimes what makes us unique is what brings us together.

Students are inspired to write about a time that they felt accepted and appreciated for who they are.

Writing can be a powerful tool when working through feelings of grief, sadness, or anger. This Spark creates an intentional opportunity for youth to write and speak about what is on their minds.

We are all parts of a whole, just like a pizza! In this Spark, students will think about all the things that make them who they are and then write a poem in the shape of a pizza.

Students will learn to be empathetic towards those who are different by brainstorming scary characteristics of specific monsters and then developing more positive aspects to their nature.

Nouns, adjectives, adverbs—and in this case—verbs are the building blocks of super sentences. In this Spark, students share action words that bring them joy and incorporate those verbs into a story.

In this Spark, students practice adding details into their writing, with the help of peer feedback.

Students pose questions to the magic 8 ball in this activity centered on character motivation.

Students will define the word “ode” for themselves and identify the people and moments in their lives they’d like to celebrate in a poem.

Students plot significant memories on a timeline in this reflective writing activity.

Students will anthropomorphize an inanimate object to produce interview questions and answers.

In this activity, students practice analyzing a character’s internal motivations and fears and develop their own original characters.

In this activity, students illustrate a favorite word and explore what makes words meaningful through illustration, research, and discussion.

Students identify the power of imagery in poetry, then practice putting this power to use in a poem about their neighborhood.

This spark activity is designed to get your students on their feet while reinforcing the need for strong dialogue in narratives.

This Spark introduces students to the fantastical world of Flood City and prompts them to write a journal entry from the perspective of a Flood City resident.

Challenge students to rewrite a classic nursery rhyme with a twist.

Students reflect on what it feels like to stand up to bullying and write about a time when they used their voice to make a difference.

Students will use their knowledge of popular music to learn basic computer programming concepts.

Students play a spin-off version of Balderdash in this activity, working as budding archeologists who must use the power of observation to solve a few artifact mysteries.

In this activity, students write about a cause they are passionate about and imagine how they can create change in the world.

In this activity, students work as budding archeologists and creatively reimagine ways for archaeologists and historians to use artifacts to tell stories.

In this activity, students explore Instagram as a form of public rhetoric and practice using hashtags as a way to engage with larger communities.

Students will use creative thinking to innovate an imaginary elixir that targets a problem they see in the world.

Writing can be a powerful tool when working through feelings of grief, sadness, or anger. This Spark creates an intentional opportunity for youth to write and speak about what is on their minds.

To jumpstart their own poems, students take inspiration from the poetry of the others.

Students will imagine (and write about) their own fantastical worlds, using the cover illustrations of magazines as inspiration.

By combining two classic games, students will learn how storytelling and art can build community or help them break through writer’s block.

In this activity, students create original monsters in archetypal protagonist and antagonistic roles by focusing on internal and external characteristics.

In this Spark, students will play a game of bingo to improve their narrative writing.

Students will imagine what they would do if they were someone or something else.