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Questions for discussion:
I like to imagine that it is a really small dragon which you can keep in your pocket but when you need to it can grow huge so that you can ride it.

I came across these amazing images in a Sunday supplement. I followed them up and got permission to use them here and in schools. They are by a Parisien artist called Laurent Chehere. I would link them to 'Pixar's Up'
Children could describe them in 1st person imagining they are looking up at them. They could discuss where they are landing, how they are flying etc.

I think this image is great for writing a flashback. The story could begin with this image, then the children could flash back to describe how she ended up in there.

I saw these two images on a Trafford Centre Advert. They could spark a discussion about healthy lifestyles.

All statues have a back story, the children can write that. Who is it? What is? Where is it? Does it come alive? What happens? Is it watching us? What is it thinking?

With thanks to Jane Hewitt

Imagine you discover this 'shed' at the bottom of your garden, What is inside? I can imagine it's magical inside, much bigger than it seems on the outside. Perhaps lit by candles, strange instruments on the tables, cobwebbed and dusty.
Behind you the door closes gently and you espy this man sat in emerald green robes, peering at you over his glasses, the candles flicker and die out. It's pitch black and he whispers....

Allow the children 10 words only. No more and no less. What does the Wizard say to them? Make it mysterious. This is the opening scene to a story. Perhaps something like "Come, follow me.. Don't make a sound, she is upstairs!"

What has happened? How did it happen? Who did it? Why did they do it? What will happen next?

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Watch the film through. Simply pause the film on a beautiful scene and then ask the children to describe it. Simple!

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Magic doorway

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Sign up for our free Learning Network newsletter. Updated: May 31, 2019 Receive new writing prompts in your inbox every week.
Think The New York Times is only for readers at a high-school reading level? Think again.

Besides written articles, The Times also offers a rich collection of visuals - photos, illustrations, graphics, GIFs and short videos - that are accessible to learners of all levels. Since 2016, we've been featuring these images in our daily Picture Prompts: short, image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of student writing.

Teachers tell us they use these prompts in all kinds of ways. Some use them to encourage students to develop a daily writing habit. Others as an exercise to practice inferences, spark discussion or support reading. This year, one elementary school music teacher told us how her class used the visuals as inspiration for writing short stories accompanied by music.

For more ideas, we have a lesson plan on how to teach with Picture Prompts and other Times images, as well as a free, on-demand webinar that explores how to use our thousands of writing prompts for everyday low-stakes writing practice across the curriculum.

Below, we've categorized the 140+ prompts we published during the 2018-19 school year based on the type of writing they primarily ask students to do - whether it's penning short stories and poems, sharing experiences from their own lives, telling us their opinions, or interpreting an image's message. All are still open for comment.

You can find even more images in our Picture Prompt roundups for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years.

If you use this feature with your students, or if you have other ideas for how to use photos, illustrations and graphics to encourage writing, let us know in the comments section.

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Over 140 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing (Published 2019)

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Once Upon a Picture - Images to Inspire - Teaching Resources

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Once Upon a Picture - Images to Inspire - Teaching Resources

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About Us - Contact Us - How to Use Visual Writing Prompts - FAQ

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Instead of groans at the beginning of a writing lesson, your class were excited to pick up their pencils and you were the teacher that sparked their imaginations!

Even your most reluctant writers are generating adventurous vocabulary, perfecting punctuation and filling the page with no signs of stopping!

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Engage even your most reluctant writers with inspiring images, fun writing prompts and daily short burst writing activities that improve writing stamina.

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Saw a little owl sitting in the rain..I wonder what he's thinking?

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What happened next? What is the message here?

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I woke to find myself trapped in a snow globe.

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As I wandered along the beach something caught my eye...

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More interesting photographs: https://niume.com/pages/post/?postID=9981

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Road Trip

http://bit.ly/1ziTXsG

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Jacobite Highlander re-enactors sit in a bus stop as a woman cycles past in Prestonpans, Scotland. The actors were in town promoting this weekends re–enactment of the 1754 Battle of Prestopans.

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Today in Pictures - Plaid and Pleats - TIME

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Jacobite Highlander re-enactors sit in a bus stop as a woman cycles past in Prestonpans, Scotland. The actors were in town promoting this weekends re-enactment of the 1754 Battle of Prestopans.

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Just in time

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Explain how. Try to maintain a rhythm or rhyme pattern.

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Describe man's best friend.

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I opened the fridge and...

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Conflict

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Mission success...

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A day in the life of a superhero

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A battle or a tournament?

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Mythical creature starter

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The new class toy takes an adventure!

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Pinterest Board

What can they see?

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Pinterest Board

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Pinterest is a treasure trove

What is the giraffe scared of?

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Mayan link - what is through the doorway

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A website full of visual prompts

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A link to my Pinterest board

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It needed to be covered...

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An abandoned doll-making factory

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Found on sunsurfer

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A drop box link full of writing prompts

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Writing inspiration Pinterest board

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A link to my Pinterest board

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Who could live in this house?

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A classic image from the The Piano man video. Could take a still of any of the scenes.

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Made using InstaShake app

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Where do fairies live?

This picture was from a forest school session with @CommuniTree

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Don't look down! Peel Tower, Ramsbottom

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You step into the painting, what happens next?

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The face in the tree

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21 Surreal Places In The UK To Add To Your Bucket List

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Worked well the day a child happened to be absent!

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He crept slowly from the woods...

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Thought it best I stayed with last week's theme...