In your classroom
There are a growing number of writing ideas on the site (100+) - usually borrowed from other teachers and writers - with acknowledgements where possible. Some teachers keep envelopes of suggestions in classrooms. However, when writers keep notebooks and are practised in writing regularly, they may not need a stimulus to get them going. They will have their own ideas.
Many NWP teachers' writing groups meet in public spaces, such as galleries and museums, and use artefacts and the environment as starting points for writing. (This can be replicated in the classroom or school premises e.g. Quick writes - Scavenger hunt). Some of the ideas spark off other writing - poems and stories (e.g. Collaboration number 4: Read and re-tell from Gabrielle-Cliff-Hodges.) Some ideas ask writers to dig inside themselves and their memories (e.g. Memories - number 1: Peter Stillman's Floor-plan exercise)
The pages on 'Free Writing' and 'Responding' are more concerned with the relationships you want to develop between writers and their writing.
Many NWP teachers' writing groups meet in public spaces, such as galleries and museums, and use artefacts and the environment as starting points for writing. (This can be replicated in the classroom or school premises e.g. Quick writes - Scavenger hunt). Some of the ideas spark off other writing - poems and stories (e.g. Collaboration number 4: Read and re-tell from Gabrielle-Cliff-Hodges.) Some ideas ask writers to dig inside themselves and their memories (e.g. Memories - number 1: Peter Stillman's Floor-plan exercise)
The pages on 'Free Writing' and 'Responding' are more concerned with the relationships you want to develop between writers and their writing.