Writing Tip #10: Our top 8 prompt questions!

Hi everyone,

We hope you're having a good week. This week, we want to share 8 questions which you could use to support your child or students with creative writing. When children are busy writing a piece of fiction, they can sometimes get so carried away with the plot that they forget to include some good skills and techniques. For other children, they can find it difficult to know what to write next.?Here are some questions that you could use?as a parent or teacher to support children?with creative writing. You could ask these questions whilst they are writing or once they have finished and are ready to edit it.

Can you think of other questions which you could add to this list?

1. Have you described the?time of day?and perhaps the?season?
2. Could you write something more creative about the?weather, perhaps using?personification?
3. Can you change/expand that?simile?and make it more?unique?
4. Could you change the way that you?started?this?sentence, by adding in an?adverb/-ed/-ing word?
5. How do you think your character is?feeling?at this point? Could you describe their feelings, using?Show Don’t Tell?
6. Could you describe the?building/the setting?etc a bit more? Use your?senses?to describe what can be seen, heard, smelt etc.
7. Have you described your?character?at different points throughout the story? Add in a sentence to describe your character’s?face, clothes, any movements etc.
8. Could you create more?suspense?at this point / show the?fear?at this point, by using?short sentences, Show Don’t Tell, the Monster Effect?etc?

Creative Writing Skills

Our Creative Writing Skills book teaches children the skills and techniques needed to write a fantastic story of their own. It is used by individual families, by tutors and by teachers within the classroom. We offer courses which run alongside the book - including for school literacy intervention classes.

This is an excellent resource produced by Bright Light Education - it is structured clearly and allows students to move through the pages, building all their skills in order to write vivid stories and descriptions. It's brightly coloured and includes wonderful additions to vocabulary and all the practical skills needed to develop fabulous sentences.

If you are a teacher at a school and would like to support your students further with creative writing, please read more here.

If you are an individual and would like to hear about our creative writing courses, please read more here.

If you are a tutor, head to Amazon to purchase your copy of Creative Writing Skills.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Best wishes,

Dani and Charlotte

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Bright Light Education UK LLP