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20 September 2026

Upper primary Key Stage 2 (KS2) or early KS3 imaginative / descriptive writing story starters cards, with high quality photo picture prompts, vocabulary banks, prompt questions and sentence starters. These 40 printable creative or narrative writing story prompts can be used across a range of abilities in Year 4, 5, 6 and 7, to spark ideas for stories. They’re great for reluctant writers and have a dyslexia friendly format too. Use for elementary and middle school 4th 5th 6th 7th Grade in US; Grades 4 5 6 7 in Canada; Primary 5, 6, 7, S1 in Scotland etc. Great for writing warm ups, class assignments, literacy SEN / SPED intervention, support for reluctant writers - as well as to challenge more able writers.

This BUNDLE includes these 2 packs:

Creative Writing Story Prompts (MY MOST POPULAR RESOURCE ON TES)
Creative Writing Story Prompts 2

These 2 packs are also included in this larger Creative Writing Story Prompts BIG BUNDLE 100 Prompts!

  • Use as warm ups, early finishers activities and as a framework for free writing sessions
  • Each of the 40 A4 cards features a visual element (photo / picture stimulus), a starter sentence or part-sentence to help launch children into their fiction / narrative writing
  • Prompt questions to get ideas going
  • A word bank and some suggested openers to add variety to their writing
  • A box at the bottom reminds students to read their work aloud, check for full stops and capital letters and common spellings
  • Range of subjects and genres including sport, mystery, humour, fantasy and historical. Plenty of variety so children can choose ones that appeal to them.
  • UK and US English versions included, with spellings and references to ‘full stops’ and ‘periods’ etc amended as appropriate
  • Designed to offer maximum support for dyslexic learners and those with similar barriers to learning. Verdana font and spacing used are both dyslexia-friendly and the background colours are designed to reduce glare. Both the UK and US cards are also included with the background colours removed and could be used if printing on dyslexia friendly paper or card.
  • Could be used to support the writing of a full story
  • Could also work well as a regular tool to support struggling writers in one-to-one or small group sessions, where students write a few sentences inspired by the prompts, without worrying about completing a story.

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