Creative Writing Prompts for Descriptive Writing

High School Language Arts

Are you looking for a challenge to improve descriptive or narrative writing, encouraging careful vocabulary choices and sentence structures? Look no further! This descriptive writing prompt makes it easy for students to write creatively and develop a scene setting. Build solid creative writing skills with this extensive printable. Encourage your students to demonstrate their creativity—and their writing skills—with this resource.

Are you struggling to teach creative writing with new and interesting ideas?  If you’re looking for a way to jazz up your creative writing lessons, sometimes throwing the rulebook away is the best place to start. Instead of working with traditional exercises that focus on plot outlines, point of view, try encouraging students to focus on describing the small things in a scene with these helpful prompts.

The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it’s also good for developing imaginative skills and also for practicing tenses and using descriptive vocabulary. It is based on taking away the student’s anxiety over creating a structure for the story in order for them to concentrate on describing a setting effectively through the vocabulary they use.

The FOUR page printable builds vocabulary skills, tense skills and ensures that students extend their descriptive writing with sentences that use varying structures.  This resources will guide students through the different elements of story writing and give them the skills they will need to write a short story of their own. From character creation to sensory description, these activities will help students structure their writing and create thoughtful stories of depth.

The prompts should work at most levels above elementary and can be extended as much or as little as you wish.

This activity is fun and creative and has always worked well for me both with adults and younger students. I hope you enjoy these descriptive writing resources!