Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! In this writing exercise, students will 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, this fun and engaging creative writing worksheet can be used to assess writing skills or as an on-demand writing prompt. For more descriptive writing practice, check out Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2.