Second grade is an excellent year for developing students writing skills. By this time in their schooling, they have had enough interaction and classroom time to know how to work independently or in a group. They already know the basics of writing, like forming a sentence, using storytelling words, and building a paragraph. The next goal of their writing journey is to put it all together while making the story more interesting with adjectives. Try these 43 writing prompts to stimulate your students’ creativity.
1. Tell me about the smelliest place you’ve visited.
2. How do you teach monkeys math?
3. Why should we be allowed to eat dessert before dinner?
4. How do you make a zebra play the xylophone?
5. Why should my parents do chores?
6. How do you get mom to buy a pet tarantula?
7. How do you teach a bear baseball?
8. How do you teach a rabbit to rap?
9. How do you take a cow to college?
10. Should we leave school early every day?
11. Why should my parents let me stay up later?
12. If you could breathe like a whale, what would you do?
13. How do you make a turtle play tug of war?
14. If you were invisible, what would you do in a day?
15. What did you do when you were little that you don’t do now?
16. How do you teach penguins to play the piano?
17. What is the first thing you remember eating?
18. Why is pepperoni pizza better than Hawaiian?
19. How do you make a snake go to school?
20. Why is a mini pig a good pet?
21. What did you do your first time on the school bus?
22. How do you teach a gorilla to do ballet?
23. What was so cool about your first bike?
24. Is it better to eat eggs or cereal for breakfast?
25. Which kind of ice cream is the best to eat with sprinkles?
26. Tell me about a giant bubble you blew with chewing gum.
27. Why should homework not be allowed?
28. How do you make seaweed soup?
29. Describe the first time you ate a lemon.
30. Why is it better to swim in a pool than the ocean?
31. Tell me about the tallest tree you have ever climbed.
32. Why is your hometown the best ever?
33. How do you make a llama learn lacrosse?
34. How do you make pigs play ping pong?
35. How do you make an elephant sandwich?
36. What’s the first dream you remember?
37. Where would you fly to if you were a butterfly?
38. How do you teach a tiger to tapdance?
39. If you could travel as fast as light, where would you go?
40. How do you make purple popcorn?
41. What is your favorite reptile and why?
42. What did you do on your favorite vacation?
43. Are scrambled or sunny-side-up eggs better? Why?
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