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Informative Writing Prompts
Start having fun with facts and develop your students’ informative writing.
How to use these Writing PromptsThese writing prompts follow the Seven Steps methodology of breaking down writing into Seven simple Steps and are a great way to get students’ creative juices flowing. Use them daily or weekly to build students’ confidence in their informative writing and as a fun way to practise one Step at a time. By focusing on specific skills of writing, students rapidly practise and develop each skill, ultimately building on each one to write powerful whole texts. |
Pick a Step
Step 1: Planning for Success
Careers
Pick a career you admire.
Plan a text about a typical day in that job.
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Step 1: Planning for Success
Top Athlete
What does it take to become a professional athlete?
Brainstorm five ideas for a text about the topic.
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Step 2: Sizzling Starts
Mountain Climbing
Write a Sizzling Start for a travel article about climbing the Himalayas.
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Step 2: Sizzling Starts
Super Sports
Research an extreme sport.
Suddenly, you’re a master at it!
Write a report about the sport, starting at a moment of action.
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Step 3: Tightening Tensions
Surfs Up
You’re a reporter covering a big surfing event.
Brainstorm three ways to create tension in your news report.
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Step 4: Dynamic Dialogue
Frog Report
You are writing a science report about frogs.
Brainstorm four experts you could interview.
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Step 5: Show, Don't Tell
Victorian Boy
Who is this boy?
Show (don’t tell) how his life is different to yours.
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Step 6: Ban the Boring
Sahara Dreaming
Where in the world would you like to travel?
Storyboard a documentary about your trip. Be sure to ban the boring bits!
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Step 7: Ending with Impact
Agriculture Tech
You’re writing a news report about innovation in Australian agriculture.
What are three completely different ways that you could end the article?
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