October Writer’s Notebook Prompts

Life’s Recipe  What are the “ingredients” of life? Think of the most important things that life is made up of, and write the recipe for living a good life.

My Unique Superhero  If you could create your own superhero, what would he or she be like? Label your page A-Z, then try to fill in as many letters with words that begin with that letter. Sketch and color your Unique Superhero, and give him or her a unique name.

Tonight’s work…  Complete your Unique Superhero at home.

Achoo!  What’s the worst thing about being sick? Think about a time when you weren’t feeling well. Tell the story of what happened, and what was so awful about it!

For the Love of the Game  Watch this clip. What would you say to Mitchell? What would you say to Jonathan Montanas? To the coach?

Take a sentence for a walk…  Choose a sentence from another part of your writer’s notebook. Write it on the index card provided. Trade that card with a partner, and begin a story using that partner’s sentence as the first line.

Teamwork…  What does it mean to you?  Watch and write fast and long what this video meant to you. Watch and write fast and long what this video meant to you.

Tonight’s work…  Freewrite! For 20 minutes.

Seven Wonders… Label your page 1-7. What are your 'Seven Wonders'--or the seven most amazing things your eyes have seen? Describe the places, objects, people or accomplishments in your life that are the most meaningful experiences of your life so far?

Tonight’s work…  Complete your Seven Wonders list!

Onomatopoetic! What onomatopoetic word still needs inventing? Either write about a setting, using a splash of onomatopoeia...or write about a place and invent a brand new onomatopoetic word that would be heard there.

Today’s list… Write a list of every single thing that you can remember doing today from the minute your eyes opened.

Boo! Can you remember your first time being scared? What happened? Tell the story!

Describe your worst nightmare! What would be the scariest and most awful thing?! Spiders crawling in your bed? Running out of ketchup? What is the scariest thing you can think of?

Space Walk  Watch this video.video  Would you want to walk in space? Why or why not? What do you think would be the best part of a space walk? The scariest or hardest? What might you hope to find on a space walk?

Advice  Make an alphalist of advice that you would give or you have heard.

Tonight’s work…  Complete your alphalist for Advice.

Advice – Part 2!  Choose a piece of advice from yesterday’s alphalist and tell its story.

Wrestling Match  Watch this video. Use the following prompts to help you write today…video  1 – What was going through the boys’ minds?  What would you be thinking if you were in their positions?  What words would you use to describe each boy?  Could you have done this?

Reflection  Choose a piece that you have started in your writer’s notebook. How have you improved since writing it? What would you change now, if you had a chance to re-write it?

Heart Map

Tonight’s Work…  Complete your Heart Map at home

Siblings  Would you rather be an only child, youngest child, middle child or oldest child? Why would you choose that?

Talents  Watch this video. If you woke up with a talent tomorrow morning, what would it be? What would you do incredibly well?video