Summer Writing Prompts
- Get a head start on the old "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" essay and write about "What I'm Going
to Do on My Summer Vacation."
- Write about your dream vacation. If you could go anywhere or do anything this summer, what would you do?
- I was lounging on a beach on Maui when suddenly...
- The last thing you expect to find in a swimming pool is...
- Most kids set up a lemonade stand to make some money, but not us. We decided to...
- This is going to be the last summer when I...
- One thing I wish I'd done differently last summer is...
- This summer I'm definitely going to...
- The minute the fireworks started going off, I...
Start a journal entry with:
- I remember the first time that I...
- I'll never forget...
- I am the one who...
- I write because...
- No one can make me...
- My life would be different if I'd never met...
- If someone went through my trash, they'd think...
- I want to be famous for...
- I'm really good at...
- One place in the world I really want to go is...
- I wish I never had to...
- If I could have a second chance, I would...
Write about...
- a memory of something blue, red, yellow, etc. But don't use the name of the color in your essay.
- the first time you walked home from school all by yourself.
- your earliest memory of your aunt or uncle.
- a memory of footprints in the snow.
- the first time you saw the ocean.
- the best holiday you ever had.
- a memory of rain beating on a windowpane.
- the first time you did something you weren't supposed to do.
- having to eat something that you didn't like.
Use props as prompts:
- Cut pictures of three different people out of a magazine. Write about who they are and what happened
when they met in an airport.
- Pick up three random items, each from a different room in your house. Write a story in which all three
items are significant.
- Search a dictionary for a word you've never heard of. Use it in a story or poem.
- Copy down headlines from a newspaper and turn one or more into a plausible story.
- Find postcards with funny pictures on them, and create a story or a poem from one of the pictures.
