Writing Prompts for 5th Grade

These writing prompts for 5th grade will spark lots of creative ideas in your students, and you'll also be providing some fun ways to practice fifth grade spelling words. (Just a bit sneaky, right?!)

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1. Your bedroom is suddenly floating on an island made of chocolate. What should you do first, and why?

2. What are you most looking forward to about being in eighth grade? Why?

3. This morning, you squeezed the tube of toothpaste, but something else came out. What was it, and what happened?

4. What is good name for a new rhythm instrument? How is it played? Write a short description for a brochure advertising your new instrument.

5. A mouse sneaks quietly into the principal’s office late at night. What happens in the morning?

6. On your way to the amusement park, you suddenly see a different place you’d rather visit. What is it? Why do you want to go there?

7. Women are waiting. Women are wistfully waiting. Women are wistfully waiting while…  Finish the sentence using as many W words as possible. 

8. Imagine a snail had an abundant amount of energy. What could it accomplish in one day?

9. There’s a huge traffic jam in front of your house. Reporters from all the local television and radio stations are outside your house. Why?

10. It’s your turn to give a speech in English class, but your stomach will not quit growling. What will you do?

11. Give three reasons why your best friend might be too hoarse to speak to you today.

12. You are called to the White House to receive a special award. What did you do to earn it?

Suggestions for using these writing prompts for 5th grade:

• Please note that each prompt contains one or more bold faced words. These bold words appear on our 5th grade spelling word list. 
• When you assign these prompts, you may wish to require your fifth graders to include the bold word at least once or twice in their responses.
•  You may wish to assign one prompt to every student by posting it in a prominent place in your classroom each week.
• Or, you may wish to pass out the entire printable list of prompts to students. Then you can allow them to select one prompt  at a time of their choice on which to write.
• If time allows, encourage students to illustrate their responses with their own drawings or clip art.
•  When possible, post students'written work. Before posting, be sure to give writers time to edit and improve their work. 
• Use these fifth grade writing prompts, too! 

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More Writing Prompts

Try a few of these ideas from our 105 Short Story Ideas:

1. It's so cold in North America, and so hot in South America! Plan a trip to trade places with a distant cousin from the opposite side of the world. Write about both of your experiences.

2. Write about a new food you’ve invented that tastes cold when you eat it but warms you up on the inside.

3. March 8 is National Proofreading Day. Write a story in which a proofreading error causes quite a stir.

4. The roof of your house disappeared. Write a description of your roof for law enforcement officers. Also write a statement to the police about where you think your roof might be, and how it may have ended up there.

5. Vegetables are now illegal! What will your mom serve instead? What happens in the school cafeteria? Write this story as a comedy, drama or news report.

6. Ladybugs have invaded the school cafeteria! Tell how you can move them back outdoors.

7. June is National Dairy Month. While sipping on your favorite strawberry milkshake, you suddenly end up inside the shake. Write about what happens.

8. Invent three new flavors of freezer pops for the summer. Write an advertisement to convince everyone you know to try them.

Ann Richmond Fisher is a longtime published educational writer, a former classroom teacher and a former homeschool teacher. Ann's spelling bee resources, graded spelling word lists, spelling games, worksheets, and other language arts resources have become respected around the globe since she launched Spelling-Words-Well in 2010.

Ann is also the creator of www.word-game-world.com.

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