A Right-Brained Writing Prompt from WritingFix
Focus Trait: SENTENCE FLUENCY Skill: VARYING SENTENCE BEGINNINGS

Stories Launched by Prepositional Phrases

This writing prompt generator was proposed by Nevada teacher Kate Hanlon while attending a teacher in-service sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project.

Writer Instructions:

Be sure to push each of the four buttons below and make one interesting prepositional phrase. Remember, a prepositional phrase is not a sentence by itself! You will have to write the rest of the sentence that the phrase inspires from you.

Then...use the great prepositional phrase (and its accompanying sentence) to inspire a bigger story that you can write. How many other great prepositional phrases can you use in the rest of your story?

Write an entire sentence that follows this prepositional phrase...then use the sentence in an original story:

Teacher Resources to use with this prompt:

Rough draft sheet with sentence fluency checklist embedded on second page.
Sheet of 6 Sentence Fluency Revision Post-Its for students to use to respond to each other's rough draft writing. (Click here to visit WritingFix's Post-It page)
WritingFix's List of Prepositions
WritingFix's Picture Book Lesson on Prepositional Phrases