 Using Writing Prompts
Writing Prompts offer more of a challenge than the Picture Prompts, but are the ideal means of showing students how a piece of writing – story, letter, report, whatever – can be structured to help the writer get ideas into a form a reader can readily respond to.
I Can Write has more facilities than can be shown in the simple demonstration here – you can look at associated wordlists, for example – but the main process is similar:
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Click the query icon to see the next prompt. |
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Click prompt to add it to the text. |
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Click the up and down arrows to view all the prompts you've asked to see. |
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Click into the text area to add to or change the writing. |
We are offering a framework that the student can decide to extend.
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The title is |
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Book review
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The text can be saved (as a plain text file) to be opened in a word processor, or simply copied to the clipboard and pasted into another program for editing, expanding, illustrating . . .
There are two editions of the Book review framework, with the second designed to make the student make even more of a contribution:
The title is
It was written by
I got the book from
The story was about
The main people in the book were
The best bit was
I recommend this book to |
What is the title?
Who wrote it?
Where did you find the book?
Who were the main people in the book?
What was the story about?
What was the best bit?
Was there anything you didn't like?
Who would enjoy this book? |
To create new Writing Prompts, press CONTROL + F2 from the I Can Write title screen or use The Big Editor to make frameworks as a group activity. |
