Be a More Prolific Writer!
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html
Richard Byne's Freetech4teachers always has such great ideas to explore for teachers who want to add a bit of "tech spice" to their lessons. Especially when we are doing so much virtual or blended instruction, these can be an important addition. (Lots of ideas: https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/11/good-places-to-make-and-find-story.html)
Story Starters (by Scholastic) is a fun way to get prompts that generate creativity from kids' writing time. Here's Richard's summary:
From Richard's blog: "Scholastic Story Starters is a great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories. Scholastic Story Starters offers four story themes; fantasy, adventure, sci-fi, and scrambler. To create a story on Story Starters a student picks a theme, enters his or her name, chooses his or her grade, and spins the big wheels of prompts. The student can spin the wheels until he or she finds a prompt he or she likes. After the prompt is selected the student can write his or her story using the letter, postcard, notebook, or newspaper format provided by Scholastic Story Starters. When the story is finished it can be printed."
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