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Creative Writing Prompts for Students with Autism

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Creative Writing Prompts for Students with Autism

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I created this  writing exercise for students with autism, who have difficulty finding their voice and are often overstimulated by their school environment. Over-stimulation with senses is a stumbling block to free-writing exercises. The ASMR videos are from a Youtube channel that recreate scenes from beloved books such as Harry Potter and "The Hobbit" series. I downloaded one of the videos and overlaid my audio narration using Filmora Project software. Soft voice and slow narration is intentional to help students de-stress and relax before they write. Click on the video below and expand to full screen and increase volume to view. My audio narration stops at around 12:40. The video continues to play so that students can continue to write.

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Multimodal Assignment Creative Writing Prompts

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"The sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the Hundred Acre Wood, which seemed to show that it was waking up and would soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the pine trees looked cold and lonely." ~A.A.Milne

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"The sun was still in bed, but there was a lightness in the sky over the Hundred Acre Wood, which seemed to show that it was waking up and would soon be kicking off the clothes. In the half-light the pine trees looked cold and lonely." ~A.A.Milne

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For helping students to find their words, I plan on regularly reading quotes from children's novels that will show students how to use imagery. I would use quotes like this to facilitate class discussion on how they can build a scene or a character like their favorite authors.

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"Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure"

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"Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure"

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This ebook is available in the King Curriculum Lab. Content is for grades 4-6, but I feel it can be applied to older students with autism and other special needs. I plan on using this as a resource to develop creative writing lesson plans. The book includes story-writing examples from classic writers such as Charles Dickens. For someone like me who is new to lesson plan creation, this book is a great blueprint for writing classes, especially for students on the Spectrum.

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Via King Curriculum Lab: This app for iPad helps students learn to build grammatically correct sentences. I would use for augmentation with my special needs students with their creative writing assignments to build confidence and skills. Often, they are hindered by lack of self-confidence. Sentence-building software on iPad is a great solution, because they love using technology. This would break down any psychological barriers to learning the basics of writing skills.

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‎**WINNER** - 2010 IEAR Language Arts App of the Year!!! Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. SentenceBuilder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that ma...

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"Transforming Writing Instruction in the Digital Age: Techniques for Grades 5-12. Teaching Practices that Work Series"

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"Transforming Writing Instruction in the Digital Age: Techniques for Grades 5-12. Teaching Practices that Work Series"

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BENEFICIAL for students with ASD, who more easily write their thoughts via a computer screen. Available via ebook in King Curriculum Lab.
Description from ERIC:
"It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content-area learning."