Using the following prompts, write a story.
Your story must start with the phrase:
“The green canoe floated quietly on the water”
Your story takes place:
On a quiet lake in Northern Ontario.
You must use the following 5 words:
Write about a time as a child when you played in one of the following: a treehouse, a cornfield, a construction site, a junkyard, an abandoned house or barn, a stream, a cemetery, a pasture, railroad tracks.
You’re driving on the open road, enjoying the scenery. Suddenly, you hit a huge pothole in the road and you get a flat tire. You don’t have any cell phone service and there is no one around for miles.
What do you do?
Where do you go?
What happens next?
Go to www.thestar.com (this is the Toronto Star website)
OR
www.theenterprisebulletin.com (this is the Enterprise Bulletin website, click on Local News)
OR
www.google.ca and click on News.
OR
use the daily printed newspaper of your choice.
Pick a story that interests you and read it. Copy and paste the link (right click, copy) into a new blog post and discuss the following about the story:
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?
How?
Using the following prompts, write a story.
Your story must start with:
“Smoke poured from the oven door…”
Your story takes place:
In your own kitchen (describe in detail!)
You must use the following 5 words in your story:
feather glitter season bugs crazy
Your story must start with following:
“The snowflakes had a sparkle to them as they fell gently on the porch railing…”
Your story takes place:
On a farm
You must use the following phrases in your story:
Super neon green
Teeny tiny teacup
Map of the world
Goat named Prince
Super furry chipmunk
Your story must END with the following:
…and they all lived happily ever after!
Your story takes place:
In a fantasy land of your creation
You must use the following words:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
abracadabra!
poof!
magic magenta
glittery green
bright sparkly blue
ridiculously friendly (animal of your creation)
smashingly happy (animal of your creation)
Your story takes place:
on an island in the middle of a warm ocean
You must include the line:
“…Yoohoo! Anyone home?”
You must include the following:
a football
pineapples
clothes hangers
poster of the Beatles
a bright pink plastic back scratcher
Pick a well loved object in your house. Tell a story from the point of view of that object.
Write a short autobiography about your life: where you were born, places you have been and jobs and things that you have done, and things you have seen.
Weekly Writing Prompts 
