Third grade is full of first experiences for students. Students will apply all of the writing skills they have been learning creatively and individually this year. They need to use all of the foundations they have learned so far and think critically in their writing. They also need to develop their voice and learn to express themselves in a way that is uniquely them. To do this, each of these writing prompts has an element of openness to allow your students to develop their writing styles. The more humorous ones will let your students think about some rather interesting ideas. Use these prompts to enable your students to use their skills to become more creative.
1. What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you at school?

2. What is the best video game to play?

3. How does an astronaut poop in space without gravity?

4. What was your proudest moment?

5. What's your favorite funny movie, and why?

6. What do you wish animals could do?

7. Do you want to eat chicken feet? Why, or why not?

8. How do you get your mom to take you out to eat?

9. How can you make a flying purple-people eater in Minecraft?

10. Would you like to go to the top of Mount Everest, or swim to the bottom of the sea? Why?

11. Who is your favorite YouTuber, and why?

12. What things do I need to know and take to go to live on Mars?

13. How can I build an oven to cook a pizza?

14. Why do you think the president has such an important job?

15. If you could live in another country, where would this be, and what would you see?

16. Suppose a talking horse with two heads knocked on your front door. What would you do?

17. Would you like to venture up the side of a volcano? Why or why not?

18. What are the benefits of starting school at a later time?

19. Tell me why you like the main character in your favorite book.

20. Teach me how to make a smoothie, step by step.

21. What do I need to throw the best party ever?

22. Why is the coral reef important to the sea?

23. Why do people live in Australia?

24. Would you like to travel the sea before the invention of airplanes? Why or why not?

25. If I am a raindrop, what will I do in my lifecycle?

26. Why does it snow more in Russia than in the USA?

27. How are Chinese new year and Christmas alike? What makes them different?

28. Are the bugs the same everywhere in the world?

29. When I go to school in the morning, what are the children in England doing?

30. Do all animals fart?

31. Do you think it is better to have one-time zone in the USA?

32. What would it be like to live on the moon?

33. How will school be different in 30 years?

34. How is your life different from your grandparents?

35. Describe a fictional world in which you'd like to live.

36. What makes a good book/film/TV show?

37. Who created the telephone, and how did they do it?

38. Why should buying a monkey be illegal?

39. If you were an Egyptian Pharaoh, how would your life be?

40. What would it be like to live as a child in the time of the Renaissance?

41. Why are plants green?

42. How are cats different than dogs?

43. What was the biggest dinosaur that ever lived?

44. Why did the ice age happen?

45. What do you think is at the end of a rainbow?

46. What is the first lie you ever told?

47. If you were a Mayan Indian, what kinds of food would you eat?

48. Do you think AI is good or bad? Why?

49. How many different kinds of snakes live in the rainforest?

50. How are sharks and whales different and alike?

51. Teach me how to make a YouTube channel.

52. How do kids in Mexico celebrate Halloween?
