Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompts

Students flex their descriptive writing muscles with these inspiring picture prompts! In each of these writing exercises, learners will be prompted to examine a picture and imagine that it's the first scene of a story. Young writers are then asked to use descriptive words to describe the details in the scene, using guiding questions to encourage their creative thinking. Designed for middle school learners, these unique and engaging creative writing worksheets can be used to assess writing skills or as on-demand writing prompts.