Challenge your students spice up their writing with these Picture Prompts with Word Banks for Narrative Writing. This printable pack of 20 illustrated pictures, each one with a prebuilt word bank of 20 words, is engaging for all 2nd through 5th graders. Plus, you'll get customizable blank word banks to make differentiation a snap. The kinesthetic nature of the activity makes writing easy and fun. And it’s a great way to practice collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, give and receive feedback, disagree appropriately, and work with others effectively.

BUILT-IN WORD BANKS

Students communicate and collaborate with their peers as they cut the word banks apart and manipulate their word cards into the sequence of events before committing their oral story to paper. By physically moving the word cards into their desired story sequence, students have the ability to make revisions to their story in a fun and easy way.

BLANK WORD BANK CARDS

Students use a picture to recall a similar life experience, then generate their own word banks before crafting their own stories. To make this even more challenging, pull out your ELA curriculum vocabulary cards and ask students to think critically before selecting 3-5 academic words to their story. It’s a great way to practice collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, give and receive feedback, disagree appropriately, and work with others effectively.

Here's what’s included:

• 20 Picture Prompts, each with 20 word Word Bank

• 20 Picture Prompts (same pictures as above) with Blank Word Bank Cards

• Teacher’s Guide with lesson ideas

I'd love to hear how you use this resource in your classroom! Feel free to email me at iteachiwrite@yahoo.com with any questions or suggestions you may have.

Copyright © iTeach & iWrite by Betsy Newmeyer. All rights reserved by the author. Permission to use for single classroom use only.